Following the Final on Holiday memories

National Football Museum: Trying to find a television on the way back from Minehead

A video memory filmed at the NFM

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A Collection of holiday memories

Watching and listening in the Lake District, the Norfolk Broads and at Stonehenge

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A Collection of holiday memories

Watching and listening in Paignton, Bude and Blackpool

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Pete Dyer: at Scout Camp on the Isle of Man

Squeezing into the living room of kind but complete strangers

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Guy R. Clements: a deliberately timed hike at Scout Camp in Barmouth

An inadvertently tactless request for the result

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Paula Potts: on holiday in Jersey

A downright weird souvenir of World Cup Final day

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Nigel Anstead: travelling home from Scout camp in Sussex

As promised we got home in time for the Final - in the back of an undertaker's truck

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Janet McQuillan: travelling home from our holiday in South Wales

Dangerous driving gets us home just in time

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Jennifer Pitcher: travelling home from our holiday in Cornwall

Scenes at the Perry Barr Underpass showed that England had scored

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Ray Howard: subdued while watching the Final with some new friends - in Scotland

On holiday at my grandparents', who didn't have a television

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Liz Woodfield: travelling to my aunt and uncle's in Norfolk

Frustration in a traffic jam while listening on the car radio

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John Warren: watching at my Aunt's house in Watchet, Somerset

Missing the semi-final v. Portugal: then watching the Final on my own until my uninterested cousins heard my excitement

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Linda Corkish: staying at my aunt's house in Wembley

Hearing the roar from the Final and watching it the next day

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Peter Thornton: watching on holiday in Blackpool

My Dad wasn't interested but Mum trusted me with two complete, but kind, strangers

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Nigel Dowe: listening at the Madurodam model village, Rotterdam

Making our own arrangements during a school trip with three teachers who had no idea about football

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Iain Lambert: listening on a ferry across the River Schelde

Gathering a crowd of Dutch and German listeners

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Hendy Spence: listening on a converted troop ship

An historical split in support

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Richard Arthurs: listening on a ferry to France

Arriving in Copenhagen to find an extra goal

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Ray McLaughlan: listening on a trans-Atlantic liner

I remember listening to the Final but my mother wasn't interested - and my diary doesn't record it

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Andy Faiers: watching on a cross-channel ferry

A sinking ship, fear and fog are stronger memories than the Final

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Tony Clark: the celebratory reaction in Malta

A holiday memory of the Final - and I have no interest in football

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Mary Rostron: watching in Paris and not knowing who I wanted to win

An England win would mean buying a stamp in French

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Barbara Harrison: following the Final driving through France

A later minor accident - with a German

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Ian Stevenson: watching in Davos with West Germany-supporting Swiss

A celebratory treat on a school trip

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Caroline Bateson: watching on holiday in Basel

Watching at a TV shop with some very pleased Swiss

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Ian Burgoyne: celebrating with German sailors in Weymouth

Listening to the match on the beach after no success getting into a hotel to watch it - but success in the pub later

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