The day is here
The game begun
The TV gathers
Everyone.

We watch with neighbours from down the hall;
Ugo his dad and his
German mother.

Tension mounts with the familiar chant:
Clap, clap
Clap, clap, clap
Clap, clap, clap, clap
England!

The Germans score first
Through Helmut Haller
It's the first time England
Have been behind.

But on 19 minutes
We're back in it
Moore with a cross
A header from Hurst
And it's one apiece.

We've waited so long
The time goes quickly
But half time comes
With no more goals.

One one, all even.
The first half over
We don't know yet
What's still to come.