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The best London pubs and bars to watch England vs Netherlands
England’s Euros campaign may have been marked by jitters — play has been skittish, not calm and collected — but there has been a strange kind of skin of their teeth magic to the way Kane and Co. have scraped through. That win over Switzerland? Those penalties? Things of beauty; the team are pulling themselves together.
And sure, it’s not been the greatest campaign of recent times — a tepid one-nil win over Serbia, two lacklustre draws (Denmark and Slovenia), that angina-inducing win over Slovakia — but we’re through, and it’s starting to feel good. On Wednesday, at 8pm, Southgate’s boys face the Netherlands. Scrape through that, or smash them on penalties, and the final is in sight. The other semi, France vs Spain, takes place on Tuesday at 8pm, so we’ll already know who we’re facing if we get there.