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Joe Mewis

‘We beat Spain on the Saturday and went to see the Sex Pistols on Sunday. It was brilliant for me, but for Gareth Southgate I’m not so sure!’ Stuart Pearce recalls the time punk rock and Euro 96 collided

Pearce.

Music and football were at the epicentre of English culture in the summer of 1996.

Euro 96 was the first major international tournament to be played on English shores since the 1966 World Cup and it happened to coincide with the major cultural phenomenon that was Britpop. As Oasis and Blur duked it out in the charts, The Lightning Seeds soundtracked England’s run to the Euro 96 semi-finals with Three Lions.

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