**Official** England fans celebration thread

[Howe_zat]

 

[vcs]

Congrats guys

 

[sledger]

I've barely even heard of cricket. But any excuse to get the homemade wine out.

 

[Howe_zat]

I’m just weak at the knees. At it’s not all the coffee and booze either.

Just a sensational final. It feels like the end of an era in some way, bookended by eye-popping games against the kiwis.

 

[Neil Young]

Massive congrats to all you guys.

 

[BoyBrumby]

We don't make it easy for ourselves, do we? Whatever the sport. We had the Russian linesman (actually Georgian) in 66, Jonny's wrong foot drop in 03 and now the back of Ben's bat today.

 

[Spark]

I’m just weak at the knees. At it’s not all the coffee and booze either.

Just a sensational final. It feels like the end of an era in some way, bookended by eye-popping games against the kiwis.

Honestly I think winning like this (aside from some of the madness at the end) is by far the most satisfying way to win, rather than creaming 380 on a runway and having the oppo fold meekly in reply.

 

[Spark]

I’m just weak at the knees. At it’s not all the coffee and booze either.

Just a sensational final. It feels like the end of an era in some way, bookended by eye-popping games against the kiwis.

Honestly I think winning like this (aside from some of the madness at the end) is by far the most satisfying way to win, rather than creaming 380 on a runway and having the oppo fold meekly in reply.

 

[ImpatientLime]

a day i never thought i'd see due to our historically very conservative nature in white ball cricket.

an astonishing achievement.

 

[Howe_zat]

In hindsight I agree with Spark. At the time I think I would take the massive win, thank you very much.

A massive win probably would have my summarising be a bit more dignified too, ha.

 

[BSM]

Probably the greatest game of any sport I have ever seen; helped that we ended up winning of course

A lot of social media reaction as well. I think at least for a little while, Cricket is relevant in England again

 

[PikeyB]

Pretty much resigned myself to losing this ..thought New Zealand would choke us to death after we went 4 down .

New Zealand had the best of the conditions but we had some crazy luck .

All us Brits of a certain age will probably agree . We grew up losing , we kept the faith when we were a fecking joke team . We started improving but always we were coming up short in ODI . England winning a World Cup has been one of my lifetime ambitions . This is a huge day for us .

 

[OverratedSanity]

Congrats to the English fans. Was a treat listening to Howe's numerous meltdowns and yelps of disbelief on commentary.

Admitting that Root choked was a seminal moment.

But seriously, watching a win like that must have been incredible. Kinda jealous tbh.

 

[nightprowler10]

Congrats! I thought for sure they were gonna lose when they kept throwing it to the wrong end in the super over.

 

[Shri]

Following the game with zo and ho on comms almost nade me root for england. Almost.

But this must never be allowed to happen again.

But celebrate for now you ****s!

Will there be an open bus tour?

 

[Pothas]

Just incredible.

 

[Spintolose]

Wooooooooooooot! Wooooooooooooot!

 

[Prince EWS]

Pretty sure Corrin will let me in this thread as his guest as long as I bring my passport.

 

[Pothas]

Honestly I think winning like this (aside from some of the madness at the end) is by far the most satisfying way to win, rather than creaming 380 on a runway and having the oppo fold meekly in reply.

I wanted nothing other than that at the start of the day but this now makes it one my favourite ever sporting moments, which I really would never have expected.

 

[ImpatientLime]

I wanted nothing other than that at the start of the day but this now makes it one my favourite ever sporting moments, which I really would never have expected.

yeah this made edgbaston 2005 feel like a cake walk