After 24 years of trying, the England women’s hockey team finally won gold at the Commonwealth Games. They had played Australia in three finals before now, and lost every one of them. But on a sunny Sunday afternoon at the University of Birmingham, they finally beat them, 2-1, through goals from Holly Hunt and Tess Howard.
And if it wasn’t exactly easy, it wasn’t anything like as difficult as history suggested it would be, either. England were in control of the match throughout, and yes, by the end the fans up in the big grandstand were singing “hockey’s coming home”.
