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Euro 2024: England fans’ weird and wonderful path to final

Images of India and Pakistan cricket fans uniting to cheer on England’s football team could only have been captured in the West Midlands, the man who caught the moment said.

Harjap Bhangal’s clip showed how rival fans at Edgbaston’s cricket ground gathered together around TVs last Saturday to cheer on England’s Euro 2024 quarter-final win.

The historic rivalry at India-Pakistan matches is usually “very fierce, very bitter,” but suddenly “we were all united, just glued to the screen”, Mr Bhangal said.

The clip has racked up more than nine million views on X and has been shared by high profile figures such as Gary Lineker, Hugh Grant and Adil Ray.

The cricket fans were at Edgbaston to watch India and Pakistan play in the World Championship of Legends, a contest for retired and non-contracted players.

Mr Bhangal said people soon started watching England’s Euros match on their phones, before persuading bars inside the stadium to switch their TVs to the football.

“The crowds just got bigger and bigger, until the whole concourse was absolutely flooded,” he told BBC Radio WM, adding that he had travelled from London for the cricket and still abandoned his front-row seat to watch the football.


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