All-nighters, phone bans and school screenings - how you watched England's epic win

BBC England Monday 06 July 2026, 15:15 UTC 1 min read

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Fans powered through a 02:00 BST kick-off gathering in packed pubs, watching from home, or later on at school.

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Between enemies-to-lovers and ‘shadow daddies’, BookTok has fallen in love with the spicy stories combining romance and fantasy. But there is more to the subgenre than sex, say the fans who queued for hours outside the brick-and-mortar Oxford store‘We left Warrington at 5.15am this morning to get here,” Emma tells me, standing in a queue that stretches down Walton Street. It is just after 9am on a Saturday in Oxford, the students are still in bed and the tourists have yet to descend on the...

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All-nighters, phone bans and school screenings - how you watched England's epic win

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