Picture courtesy of Reuters via BBC

 

The victorious England women's football team received a hero’s welcome as they touched down on home soil after their Euro 2025 triumph against Spain. Enthusiastic fans decked out in England regalia gathered outside Southend Airport to cheer on the reigning champions.

 

A grand reception awaited at Downing Street hosted by Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner. The Lionesses gifted a signed England shirt and enjoyed refreshments in No 10’s garden. The celebrations continue with an open-top bus parade in London and a procession along The Mall, concluding at the Queen Victoria Memorial.

 

A nail-biting penalty shootout secured England's thrilling 3-1 victory in the Basel final. Chloe Kelly's decisive penalty and Hannah Hampton's crucial saves made history as the Lionesses became the first English team to claim a major title abroad.

 

Over 16 million viewers tuned in to witness the gripping finale, marking the highest TV ratings of the year. The Lionesses landed back in England to a warm reception; their arrival was signified with an aircraft displaying the phrase "Home."

 

Deputy PM Rayner applauded the team, stating, "The Lionesses have brought it home again," expressing national pride over the European champions’ success. England manager Sarina Wiegman also addressed the crowd, praising her team's extraordinary talent.

 

Upon arrival, Captain Leah Williamson proudly displayed the Euro 2025 trophy. The team posed for photos in both sportswear and their official tailored outfits, bringing fans a moment of joy.

 

At Downing Street, the Lionesses posed beneath red-and-white St George's flags. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, abroad in Scotland, video-called Wiegman to commend the team’s performance. Government pledges to enhance women's football facilities further underlined the triumph's significance.

 

King Charles III expressed royal admiration for the team's achievements, with discussions underway for an autumn reception at Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle.

 

While calls for extra bank holidays were humorously declined, Royal Mail announced celebratory postmarks to commemorate the win. The road ahead looks promising for women's sports in Britain, buoyed by the Lionesses' inspiring success.

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from BBC 2025-07-29

 

 

I bet Rayner wishes she could draw the same respect and adoration as the Lionesses.

Not even up to schoolboy standard, the girls should stick to netball,, rounders and tennis 

On 7/29/2025 at 6:49 AM, webfact said:

King Charles III expressed royal admiration for the team's achievements,

Achievements?

34 minutes ago, proton said:

Not even up to schoolboy standard, the girls should stick to netball,, rounders and tennis 

 

Nowhere near schoolboy standard. Switzerland women were hammered 7-1 by an under 15's boys team in the buildup to this tournament. Was that Barcelona under 15's, you might ask? Was it the German under 15's national schoolboy side? No, it was FC Luzern under 15's.  

 

Spain, the current Women world champions and eventual finalists could only edge past Switzerland 2-0.

 

That tells you a a lot about the standard of women's football. So please, no more women commentating on and critiquing the men's game. It's embarrassing. 

On 7/29/2025 at 6:49 AM, webfact said:

While calls for extra bank holidays were humorously declined, Royal Mail announced celebratory postmarks to commemorate the win. The road ahead looks promising for women's sports in Britain, buoyed by the Lionesses' inspiring success.

More Labrador than Lioness IMHO.

46 minutes ago, proton said:

Not even up to schoolboy standard, the girls should stick to netball,, rounders and tennis 

 

Rounders....baseball?

I see the incels and misogynists are piling in on this......sados.

So all these obese keyboard warriors who couldn't even kick a ball, and who were outraged by the guy punching women in the Olympic boxing, are now comparing a women's football team with a team of young men 😅😅😅

 

The Lionesses won ..... and on penalties, something the England mens team could never do.

6 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

I see the incels and misogynists are piling in on this......sados.

Sad little men with sad little lives.

Just sticks n stones Kinnock. its not just football that woman are pretty good at. The current Womans Rugby Union World cup winners are New Zealand who dominate anyone else at the moment.

11 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

Sad little men with sad little lives.

Most are probably Americans who's number 1 sport is Grid iron where they wear that much padding there safer then a Swedish Seat belt and they wear a crash helmet Soft.

1 hour ago, proton said:

Not even up to schoolboy standard, the girls should stick to netball,, rounders and tennis 

Knitting

1 hour ago, Gandtee said:

I bet Rayner wishes she could draw the same respect and adoration as the Lionesses.

 

Labour are trying to jump on the bandwagon. Which is ironic considering Emily Thornberry's nasty tweet mocking the working class "white van man" with the St George flag outside his house. Suddenly they are pretending to be English patriots. 😆

 

I'm actually happy they won. The standard is clearly awful but it's good to see English teams winning, plus I'm hoping if the women's game gets bigger then the female commentators will leave the men's game alone. 

 

 

Big Saint George's Crosses hanging from the windows. Isn't that an imprisonable offence nowadays? 

2 minutes ago, Packer said:

Big Saint George's Crosses hanging from the windows. Isn't that an imprisonable offence nowadays? 

 

I think one of the players actually said she was "proud to be English". Not only that, but she was white. 😱

 

Once the celebrations have died down, Labour will need to launch an investigation. Maybe get Humza Yousaf to head it up. It's simply not acceptable in this day and age. 😆

29 minutes ago, Packer said:

Big Saint George's Crosses hanging from the windows. Isn't that an imprisonable offence nowadays? 

No.

24 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

I think one of the players actually said she was "proud to be English". Not only that, but she was white.

 

She has balls. 

3 minutes ago, Packer said:

 

She has balls. 

And played the full Tournament with a broken Tibia balls indeed.

42 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Labour are trying to jump on the bandwagon. Which is ironic considering Emily Thornberry's nasty tweet mocking the working class "white van man" with the St George flag outside his house. Suddenly they are pretending to be English patriots.

 

The team looks rather white to me. You might think Labour would be up in arms about the lack of DE & I

 

 

 

Good effort. Hard to get to the top, even harder to stay there.

3 minutes ago, The Cyclist said:

Good effort. Hard to get to the top, even harder to stay there.

 

And the mentalism continues. Well done, keep up the good work.

 

How anyone can down thumb facts they can see with their own eyes, is indeed, mentalism.

 

Weak, noodle limbed individuals.

4 minutes ago, The Cyclist said:

The team looks rather white to me. You might think Labour would be up in arms about the lack of DE & I

 

There has already been plenty of uproar about their "whiteness". 

 

https://nypost.com/2022/07/15/bbc-presenter-eilidh-barbour-england-soccer-team-too-white/

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jul/18/england-women-squad-euro-2022-whiteness-diversity

 

Labour have got the good sense to stay quiet on this. For now...

 

I wonder when Thornberry will mock them on X - "Image from #DowningStreet".

 

 

 

Long way to go for women's football, this tournament made a loss of 25m euros, compared to the 1.2bn euro profit from the mens game.  If even just some of the 50%+ of the population that are women actually watched women's sports, or the sport took some pointers from popular women's sports (women's beach volleyball as an example) to encourage some men to watch the games, then perhaps they might start generating the kind of profit needed to be able to pay the players a bit more.   

 

1 minute ago, JonnyF said:

There has already been plenty of uproar about their "whiteness". 

 

https://nypost.com/2022/07/15/bbc-presenter-eilidh-barbour-england-soccer-team-too-white/

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jul/18/england-women-squad-euro-2022-whiteness-diversity

 

Ta, 

 

It will come as no surprise, that the Graun are all over it like a bad rash.

 

Labour are probably fretting too much over Gaza to make comment 

If there good enough they get picked its not about coulour. 

4 minutes ago, BarraMarra said:

If there good enough they get picked its not about coulour. 

Read the article. No one has a problem with the team's colour of the manager's colour.

It is an opinion piece on the grass routes development and scouting network of the women's game. No one is saying put a black girl in the team for the sake of it.

6 minutes ago, BarraMarra said:

If there good enough they get picked its not about coulour. 

Yes, and there's Michelle Agyemang in the team.

 

But colour is irrelevant anyway.

Kind of depressing that an article about the success of the women's team just has all the usual trolls out saying it's rubbish, not as good as men's (no one said it was), DEI, Labour, Labour, Guardian, blah blah blah.

 

It doesn't matter if they can't kick the ball as hard as a man (or whatever your gripe is exactly, as I am not sure), they have defeated the reigning world champions in their sport and retained the European Championship - a remarkable achievement in any sport.

Just, for once, it would be nice to say "well done" and leave it at that.

Now back to the bashing and misogyny.....

2 hours ago, proton said:

Not even up to schoolboy standard, the girls should stick to netball,, rounders and tennis 

That 6 woke liberals disliked your post says it all these days.  It may have been blunt - but the truth is that at Football, Cricket, Rugby, Tennis the U15 Boys would annihilate the Women - State, National and International levels.   The best woman tennis player of all time (Serena Williams) admitted that any of the top 50 men players would beat her 6-0 6-0.  In fact she said that the top 200 would beat her - it is a 'no contest'.  They hated her for that 🙂

 

One day soon reality is going to bite the woke feminist women on their collective butts. They are both physically and mentally inferior to males at all sports - and IMO they are the same in most aspects of life. Where they excel is where they have always left men for dead - running a home/family and work roles like teaching kids and nursing and media communications.  

 

Some wokes will shout sexist etc. but it is not - it is realist. The reason it is being said by myself and others is because we are sick of the BS about women's sports - especially their demands to be recognised and paid as much as the men. Right now the WNBA in USA is demanding they get paid more - even though they are totally subsidised by the NBA and have never made a profit.  They, like all woke liberals and feminists, are delusional. 

Some of the lionesses are Millionaires and soon thanks to there Euro achievements most will become Millionaires with Major sponsers like NIKE  and Addidas queuing up to sighn them up.