England win the Fête

England U21 2 v Mexico U21 1
Tournoi Maurice Revello, Final

Played at Stade Francis-Turcan, Martigues

Saturday 9 June 2018

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Another Young Lions trophy. We'll actually trophies, plural. This is a famous old football tournament. The 46th version. But, it can get a bit village fête at times. At some games, they have a ceremonial kick off. Two local wigs that are big ship out to the middle & have a pretend kick off. The trophy ceremony had a feeling of everyone gets summat.

Lewis Cook got 2nd best player of the Tournament.
Freddie Woodman got the best goalkeeper of the Tournament.
Eddie Nketiah won goal of the Tournament.

On the night, Trophies picked up by other teams Inc fair play, breakthrough player, golden boot, third best player, best player plus others I'll have forgotten.

Look. Mexico ended up with Golden Boot & Best Player. They looked good. The group game between these two had finished nil nil. Tonight, they scored a great flowing move plus tap in goal inside a minute. England had it all to do. It wasn't dour. But it was ground out. It needed a Mexican Keeper howler for one of the goals. On balance, because of their flair, I felt Mexico were just about the best team on the night. But, England got back in it, got ahead, stayed in it. Won it.

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