A night when the ‘Three Lions’ failed to roar, leaving fans heartbroken

Euro Cup final a heartbreaker for English fans in Kerala

Hours before the Euro Cup final kicked off at the historic Wembley stadium in faraway London, Adithya Prasad, a young house surgeon here, downloaded a mobile app. Anticipating an English victory against the Italians, he had planned a video with the English manager Gareth Southgate holding aloft the trophy. But that video proved stillborn as the Three Lions were kicked out by the Azzurri in a contest that went right down the wire. “Just a waste of mobile data,” said Adithya, sardonically. For English fans, the number of whom keeps on soaring in the State, thanks in large measure to the popularity of the English Premier League, there was no bigger heartbreak in recent times.