Good morning, three minutes after tennis for time. This is a little bit unfamiliar, isn't it?

There are, of course, very few occasions when the back page moves to the front page, as newspaper people can never stop thinking about it.

Sports stories become news stories. And today is, well, for most of us, and I speak as a chap born in 1972, so six years after an England

football team last won a major international competition, that's the story of the day.

It's just mad. It's utterly lovely. There was a little bit of me, and I hope this doesn't sound sort of mildly sexist.

There was a little bit of me that wondered, as the tournament went on, whether the engagement and the excitement would be the same as for the men's team.

Not because of any genetic or gender-based differences, but simply because of investment.

Because I've watched the England men's football team so many times over so many years

that they, I wondered whether they would turn out to have a slightly different place in my heart

than the women's football team, but clearly not.

I mean, to be honest, by the quarters,

absolutely, absolutely on it. And then the amazing semi-finals, the semifinal in many ways

a more incredible game than the final because we just played like England teams never play.

Or again, like England's men's teams never play. The pressure, early pressure,

resisted, and then not snatching it at the last, but just getting ahead and then absolutely

driving it home. It's magnificent. But then the history kicked in, and fair play to two of my all-time favourite broadcasters anyway.

Ian Wright and Alex Scott. Ian Wright in particular, not because, well, only for the very simple reason that I think he's been incredible in a million different spheres, whereas Alex is a relatively newer arrival to the public space. I think if

you listen to Ian talking about his experience of therapy and becoming, well, becoming a person

he didn't want to see in the mirror in the morning and the hard work he's done to him. I just find

the man is an inspiration to me. I've told him personally, and I'll

tell you as well, he is an absolute legend. And both him and Alex Scott, who of course had lived

this experience, which made her contribution even more powerful, talking about how the women's

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