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England U21 2 Netherlands U21 1: Harvey Elliott brace sends Young Lions to Euro final despite goal from Bellingham pal
HARVEY ELLIOTT had his own Ollie Watkins moment as he downed the Dutch and fired England to the European Championship final.
He refused to let a wondergoal from Jude Bellingham’s best mate Noah Ohio stop him stealing the headlines to set-up a showdown against either Germany or France.
Elliott, 22, broke the deadlock in scorching temperatures at the Narodny Futbalovy Stadion in Bratislava midway through the second half.
Moments later Ohio, with his first touch, stunned the Young Lions with a brilliant first time 40-yard strike.
But Elliott, one of two survivors from the 2023 team that lifted this prize, produced his own magic moment to win it to condemn the Dutch to more semi-final heartbreak 12 months after Watkins did the same at Euro 2024.
Boss Lee Carsley made just one change to the side that sliced through the much-fancied Spain last Saturday in the last round.
Elliot Anderson came back into midfield for the suspended Tyler Morton to partner Alex Scott with James McAtee and Jay Stansfield ahead of them.
Omari Hutchinson and Liverpool playmaker Elliott were the two tasked with providing the ammunition from the flanks.
And the back four of Tino Livramento, Charlie Cresswell, Jarell Quansah and Jack Hinshelwood were the wall protecting goalie James Beadle.
Despite the scorching conditions, it was the Young Lions who pounced first and carved open the Dutch inside three minutes.
Anderson carried the ball and fed Hutchinson out left. He darted into the area and his cross found Elliott at the back post, but Robin Roefs saved with his left leg.
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It looked set to be a long afternoon for Dutch full-back Neraysho Kasanwirjo as Hutchinson gave him a torrid time early doors as the England pressure continued.
Roefs saved again to push a fierce Elliott drive wide before he stood up well to deny skipper McAtee after he tried to fool him with a backheel.
Holland had failed to register a shot on target by the cooling break midway through the opening period, but it was them who benefitted most from it.
England, whose players were draped in ice-cold wet towels during the stoppage, appeared to have lost their momentum as the Dutch took control.
But despite all of their possession, they only had a half-hearted penalty appeal from Thom Van Bergen waved away to show for it.
There was a severe lack of tempo, although England did have one more opportunity right at the death, but Scott’s drive was deflected wide as it remained all-square at the break.
Poor Kasanwirjo, who spent last season on loan at Rangers from Feyenoord, made way for Wouter Goes in the only change at the half time after his struggle to contain Hutchinson.
Aston Villa’s Ian Maatsen, who was on the bench in Dortmund last summer for the seniors when Watkins broke Holland hearts at Euro 2024, finally called James Beadle into action with a 25-yard fizzer that was pushed wide.
But before they could build any momentum, England countered to make the breakthrough.
The ‘Geordie Maradona’ Anderson was right at the heart of it.
He charged forward from midfield as the terrified Dutch defence retreated, allowing him to slide it out right to Elliott.
The 22-year-old took a touch and then let out all the frustration from his two first half misses and rifled Roefs from a tight angle.
Hutchinson showed nice feet before hitting the side-netting but moments later he and his team-mates were left stunned.
Cresswell fails to control down the left and the ball goes past him out towards the touchline.
Ohio, who had only been on the pitch three minutes and became pals with Bellingham while representing England U16s, pounced and hit it first time left-footed from 40 yards and caught Beadle out of position as it sailed into the near post.
But Elliott was in no mood to let anybody steal any of his limelight as his nimble-feet left Thom van Bergen for dead on the edge of the area before firing left-footed past Roefs.
Anderson almost curled in a third, but the biggest cheer of all came deep into stoppage time.
Desperate Holland won a corner, sending everybody forward including keeper Roefs.
But Beadle came through everybody to claim it and England were on their way to another date with destiny as they look to retain their crown as kings of Europe.
Barcelona confirm Camp Nou return date with matches to be played in unfinished 99,354-seater stadium
BARCELONA have confirmed the official reopening date for the Camp Nou.
The iconic stadium has been undergoing a period of redevelopment over the last two years.
It was initially expected to open at the end of last year, but a series of delays pushed the date back.
Now, six months on, the day of the official reopening has been confirmed.
Barcelona will return to the Camp Nou on August 10 for the Joan Gamper Trophy match – a yearly event which takes place just before the start of the La Liga season.
However, the stadium will not be fully completed by then.
A club statement revealed that some areas of the ground are still being developed.
It read: “Remaining works include the completion of the new third tier, the dual VIP ring, the roof installation, and the final touches to various interior spaces, as well as the urban development of the stadium’s surrounding area.
“During this period, the Club will strive to ensure the highest level of comfort for members, fans, and visitors to the Spotify Camp Nou, facilitating access and adapting services to offer the best possible experience.”
The statement continued: “To celebrate this moment, FC Barcelona has launched an epic and emotional campaign under the slogan ‘Tornem a casa, vibrem’.
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“The campaign includes a wide range of actions and activations across the city and digital platforms, aimed at reinforcing the connection between the Club, its fans, and the city of Barcelona—as well as with culers around the world.
“Some campaign elements have already been released, with more initiatives to follow and details to be shared through the Club’s official channels.
“With this return, FC Barcelona takes a symbolic and emotional step into the future, reclaiming its home in a new era that will culminate with the complete inauguration of the new stadium.”
Barcelona’s opponents for the Joan Gamper Trophy match are yet to be confirmed, although Serie A side Como are allegedly in the frame.
The stadium will operate at a reduced capacity between 50,000 and 60,000 fans when first opened.
It will then increase to more than 99,000 upon completion.
The new stadium is expected to cost Barcelona £1.25billion overall.
But it is also anticipated to earn the club an extra £25million per year in revenue.
Since leaving the Nou Camp, Barcelona have been playing their home matches at the nearby Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium.
I’m A Celeb star Dean McCullough reveals cast have reunited for RIVAL show to air at the same time as ITV favourite
IT may have ended six months ago, but the drama from last year’s I’m A Celebrity lived on thanks to Maura Higgins and Danny Jones’ illicit kiss at The Brit Awards in March.
Now campmate Dean McCullough has revealed some of the class of ’24 are set for a TV reunion.
The Radio 1 DJ said: “A few of us have just been away filming a TV show which is coming out at the end of the year. It’s a really exciting one actually and it’ll be on around when the jungle’s on.
“A bit of a camp reunion . . . and it is camp, I’m doing it!”
Dean was in the jungle with celebrities including Coleen Rooney, Loose Woman and Sun columnist Jane Moore and TikTok star GK Barry.
His career has rocketed since then.
He is now a regular on ITV panel shows such as Big Brother: Late And Live and has just appeared on BBC’s The Hit List.
There was some tension between Dean and other camp mates in the jungle.
During the show, fans hit out at Dean for catty comments towards Coleen.
Scouse WAG Coleen revealed her husband Wayne Rooney didn’t put on a lavish proposal when he popped the question.
Speaking in the Bush Telegraph direct to camera and away from camp, Dean delivered a catty comment as he sniped: “Coleen I’m not being funny babe but I would have run a mile.
“But then I would have missed out on the big house, the nice life and the four day wedding, and everything.”
Viewers at home didn’t miss the catty comment either, as one said: “Why is it we have to keep seeing Dean comment on everything in the hut?”
Blind Date reboot will return with HUGE twist inspired by another ITV game show
IT is one of the most nostalgic TV reboots of the year – but I can reveal the return of Blind Date will come with a very modern Love Island-style twist.
Earlier this month I revealed the programme, made famous by host Cilla Black in the Eighties on ITV, was being revived by Disney+.
But it will have a different flavour because much of the show will be spent on a tropical island — just like Love Island, hosted by Maya Jama— where contestants will compete for a dream wedding on the golden sands.
A TV insider said: “This sounds like a radical departure from the old Blind Date, one that definitely has hints of Love Island about it.
“But fans will recall a lot of the dates took place in hot, sunny climes abroad, and producers want to recapture some of the steamy fun, and expand upon that.
“Even the wedding element has hints of the old show, because the dream was always that the dates on the programme would lead to couples tying the knot.”
Cilla was at the helm for 18 years on the show which saw a contestant firing questions at three hopefuls concealed from their view by a wall — which slid back to reveal their chosen date.
One of the hopefuls in 1991 was Amanda Holden.
The TV insider added: “In the reboot, the creators are not entirely dispensing with all of the old characteristics either as there are still plans to incorporate the show’s famous sliding wall and hire a top female host just like Cilla.”
Disney+ is imminently expected to confirm it is reviving Blind Date, though all details have been kept firmly under wraps.
No presenter has signed up as yet but the channel is targeting some big names in British TV, with the main criteria being that they have to be hugely famous women.
Here’s hoping whoever gets the role doesn’t mind getting a bit of sand between their toes in the course of the job.
KATH TAKES FLIGHT
KATHERINE KELLY is back dishing out the drinks . . . 13 years after pulling pints in the Rovers Return.
On Corrie she played feisty barmaid Becky McDonald, while now she’s cabin crew on new Channel 4 thriller In Flight.
Katherine will also be serving up some nerve-racking moments as single mum Jo Conran whose life is turned upside down by crooks.
Through the airline she works for, she finds herself blackmailed into drug smuggling after her son is imprisoned in Bulgaria for a murder he claims he didn’t commit.
The six-parter, set in Bangkok, Bulgaria, Istanbul and London, wrapped filming this spirng and is set to air later this year.
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STEPHEN FRY wants to make a futuristic TV drama series where e-mails, TikTok and SnapChat are “uncool” and people return to basic communication in “an unplugged life”.
The Celebrity Traitors star told podcast Extraordinary Life Stories: “I was planning to write a TV series in which this kid comes to a school and completely changes it.”
The pupil asks the teacher how to submit his essay as he doesn’t have a computer so can’t email it.
Stephen continues: “All the other (pupils) think ‘Who is this ridiculous child?’
“But then he starts influencing everybody. They think this is quite a fun way to live.
“We’ve come to a tipping point now where the uncoolest thing in the world is Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok.
“We know they’re harmful, but they are also vapid and shallow and silly.
“Imagine an unplugged life using all these fabulous old tools. You’d be the coolest people.”
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THE BBC has un- veiled two new podcasts. Double Olympic gold medallist Nicola Adams will host the LGBT Sport Podcast, which begins today.
And 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle tells the stories of the people who helped change space exploration. It launches on July 14.
SEX JOKE BIT MUCH FOR WILL
BRIT actor Will Sharpe came over all prudish about a sex scene in upcoming Netflix rom-com series Too Much . . . well, compared with the Americans on set.
He cringed as US actress Megan Stalter, who plays the lead role in the show about an American woman coping with a new life in London, joked with the show’s US creator Lena Dunham after the X-rated action.
At this week’s launch of the show, which drops on July 10, Lena said: “One of Meg’s favourite things to do is to ask you after a take: ‘What face were you making during that?’
“One time it was right after a sex scene and Meg was like: ‘What face were you making during that?’
“And I heard Will’s mic, like: ‘Jesus f***ing Christ, Meg!’”
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British pop superstar makes huge comeback with new single out TOMORROW – the same day as his secret set at Glastonbury
LEWIS CAPALDI will make a sensational return to music tomorrow – with the singer dropping his comeback single.
The release, Lewis’ first since he put out Strangers and A Cure For Minds Unwell in January last year, coincides with his secret set on the Pyramid Stage at Glasto.
As the gates to Worthy Farm opened to let the first of this year’s revellers through yesterday, a source said: “Lewis took a decent chunk of time away and now he’s ready for his fans to hear what he has been working on.
“Tomorrow is a huge day for him. He will be releasing a brand new single and it is his Pyramid Stage performance. He is in a great place and feels ready to come back into the spotlight.”
Lewis’ last performance at Glastonbury on that very stage in 2023 ended in tears, with the Someone You Loved star breaking down before cutting the set short.
I was standing shoulder-to-shoulder with fans who, like me, were in tears at watching Lew struggling.
Afterwards, Lewis told us the performance made him realise he needed to “spend much more time getting my mental and physical health in order”.
He retreated from the spotlight but last year started working on new tunes, going into the studio with British singer-songwriter Dan D’Lion, where he was snapped strumming on an acoustic guitar.
Then one of my pals overheard him in Gerry’s bar in London last October excitedly talking about new music coming this year.
Insiders said the new record came together quickly.
It will follow his two No1 albums, 2019’s debut Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent, and Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent, which came out in 2023.
In March, I caught up with his pal Yungblud, who told me he thought Lewis was back to his best, telling me: “I have heard his new music and it sounds great.”
And it’s not just the music which is on point, as Lewis returned to the stage for a secret show at Tom Walker’s Calm charity gig in Edinburgh last month.
Lewis came on stage after Tom had finished performing and played a six-song set in the Assembly Halls.
The show went down a treat and Lew absolutely nailed his six-song setlist.
Those close to Lewis’ told me he is more than ready to return to the spotlight.
“Lewis is raring to go,” my insider added. “Naturally there will always be nerves but he feels confident and assured.
“He is firing on all cylinders and there’s no doubt this single will go straight to No1, which will give Lewis a massive boost.”
We’re rooting for you Lewis, and we can’t wait to see you back down in Somerset.
Gene and Lennon’s family ties
YOU won’t need three guesses to work out who these two suit-wearing nepo babies are the sons of.
Models Gene and Lennon Gallagher were snapped looking just like their dad Liam during the Saint Laurent show at Paris Men’s Fashion Week.
There’s eight days to go until Liam and their uncle Noel reunite in Cardiff for Oasis’ reunion tour, and I’ve no doubt they will be in the crowd cheering them on.
And I won’t be surprised if Gene and Lennon hotfoot it from the French capital to Glastonbury, as I’ve seen them letting loose at the festival before.
If their resemblance to Liam extends to his behaviour, I’m sure they will be getting up to plenty of antics on Worthy Farm.
Libertine’s in album push
THE LIBERTINES are pushing ahead with their next album following the success of All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade, which went straight to No1 last year.
The band, Pete Doherty, Carl Barat, John Hassall and Gary Powell, left a gap of ten years between their third and fourth.
And in an exclusive chat ahead of their performance on Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage on Sunday afternoon, drummer Gary promised they won’t be leaving it as long before bringing out a fifth album.
“There’s always plans, it’s whether we get to it,” Gary said.“We were on a two-record deal.
“So there was supposed to be at least another record not long after the release of the one in 2015.
“Nearly ten years later, we finally got to it. We’re in the midst of touring at the moment, we’re still finishing off the touring cycle of this last album.”
Gary also dismissed suggestions The Libertines are still “ramshackle” on stage.
He said with a laugh: “It takes a lot of work to be as ramshackle as we are. Most bands will try and be ramshackle, whilst being extremely ramshackle. We actually work really hard at being ramshackle.
“I wouldn’t be in anything other than a well-rehearsed band.”
Pete’s performance with The Libertines at Glastonbury follows the death of his Babyshambles bandmate Patrick Walden last week aged 46.
Beyonce blue la la
BEYONCE is continuing the Cowboy Carter trend, even when she’s not on stage.
She wore this sexy blue denim jumpsuit and a hat while out in Paris, joined by her husband Jay-Z.
They were at the Louis Vuitton show as part of Men’s Fashion Week.
As well as getting the best seats in the house, Louis Vuitton Men’s creative director Pharrell Williams gave her a bag straight off the runway.
Jay has been on the road with Bey for months now and proved he is her No1 fan earlier in the day, when he was seen wearing a T-shirt with her picture on it.
I doubt my fella would be so pleased if I came home in a top featuring his mug.
Rita does a decent proposal
RITA ORA has spoken of her proposal to Taika Waititi, after she broke tradition by getting down on one knee.
She said on Davina McCall’s Begin Again podcast: “I just did the whole thing. We were in a hotel room in Palm Springs, like a really nice, fancy one filled up with balloons and cake, which is my favourite thing in the world.
“I got the bands made, I didn’t want anything too flashy. He’s like, ‘What the hell is it? Valentine’s Day?’ I was like, ‘Oh no, if you’re gonna say no, I’m gonna have to take my clothes off’.
“Anyway, I got down on one knee, and Taika absolutely loved it.”
Rita also talked about her friendship with Beyonce and said: “Being signed to Jay Z, she is my biggest inspiration. She took it upon herself to really look after me, and I still see her.
“She’s always been so, so nice and proud, and checking in on my family and friends I’ve had since childhood, remembering their names. I mean, it’s crazy.”
More-oon
MAROON 5 have announced their eighth album, Love Is Like. It will be out on August 15 and features All Night, as well as recent track Priceless.
Frontman Adam Levine said: “I feel like we’ve gone back to what we used to do, which is to not pay attention to where we fit, and producing the music organically.”
Vamps US reunion
THE VAMPS have reunited to make their first album for five years.
The group have been on hiatus while members pursued solo careers.
But now guitarist James Brittain-McVey has revealed they are flying to the US to start work on a new project.
On Instagram, he wrote: “It felt about time to jump on a plane and start writing again!
“I have been looking forward to this moment for years. Being with the boys feels like home. Bring on the next album.”
West End Hercules is strong on laughs and classic tunes
THE 1997 animated movie is one of Disney’s best, so the stakes were high.
But I’m pleased to report this West End adaption of Hercules, at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, does the film justice . . . and then some.
From start to finish, the show is surprisingly funny, with jokes landing perfectly from Mount Olympus all the way back down to Earth.
The all-female gospel singing muses steal the show with their vocals and camp sass.
Hades and Meg are also perfectly cast. Along with Phil, they are given a more adult costume, bringing them further into real life.
My only gripe is that in doing so, some of the classic Disney magic is lost.
Hades’ famous flame hair has been replaced with silver locks, while half-goat, half-man Phil is now all man.
But the cast make the characters their own and crowd pleasers come from the original film’s score.
While the new songs may not be instant classics, I’m pretty sure this show will Go The Distance.
JACK HARDWICK
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‘You’ll love our craic’, vows hit musical show returning to Ireland for first time in decade with five ‘nights of joy’
THE Ladyboys of Bangkok have told Ireland they will “love our craic.”
The internationally-celebrated musical show is coming to Ireland for five performances.
And for anyone who has been to Thailand and thinks they know what to expect, the show promises to be so much more.
The production is currently on tour in the UK and will have a residency in Edinburgh in August during Fringe.
Promising “adult humour”, sixteen performers will take to the stage in October to sing and dance to songs like Umbrella and more.
They are some of Thailand’s most glamorous ladyboys and will astound audiences with their outfits and their performances.
In a statement about the show, they said this is their first time back in Ireland in a decade and added: “Dublin are you ready, because you are going to love our craic?!”
The Glow Up Tour will have comedy, dance and singing, and promises to “have you dancing and singing along in the aisles”.
They added: “Whether you’re a long-time fan or a first-time visitor, the 2025 Glow Up Tour invites everyone to experience a night of joy, sparkle, and unapologetic fabulousness.
“From classic anthems to cutting-edge remixes, this year’s show is all about transformation, empowerment, and pure entertainment.”
The show will take place at Dublin’s National Stadium from October 21 to October 25.
Tickets go on sale this Friday from Ticketmaster.
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