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This summer has been very successful for the different age groups of England with a large amount of trophies being won.

Firstly, the u20’s team won the World Cup in South Korea for the first time, narrowly beating Venezuela in the final after Calvert Lewin’s goal and Woodman’s penalty save.

This win inspired the u19s to win the European Championship in a nervous final where they only just clinged on to victory.

Furthermore, the u17’s continued Euros success by getting to the final, but they were unfortunately thwarted by Spain, who won their third title.

Lastly, the u21’s reached the semi-finals, but were knocked out in the harshest circumstances by Germany.

This success brings hope for the future of English football, when there looked to be none after defeat against Iceland.

Monday, 5th June

England were sent on a Royal Marine training camp by manager Gareth Southgate to prepare for their next game against Scotland. The squad had their phones confiscated to try to get the team bonding. The activities – including going on a four-mile hike with 21kg on their backs – were exercises designed for Marine recruits.

Saturday, 10th June

England were hoping to continue their unbeaten status against Scotland, and only just managed to. Oxlade-Chamberlain scored first as a substitute before Lee Griffiths equalised with a stunning free kick. Unbelievably, he scored again a few minutes later from exactly the same spot, and Scotland looked to be on their way to victory until Kane brought the scoreline level in emphatic style.

Sunday, 11th June

England’s youngsters provided positivity for the future as they won the U20’s World Cup. They faced Venezuela in the final and won thanks to Everton’s Calvert-Lewin’s goal.

Tuesday, 13th June

England were beaten in an entertaining friendly fixture against France. Kane provided both of England’s goals to make his England tally three goals in two games. But France dominated despite having Varane sent off and managed to score three times past England’s leaky defence.

Thursday, 15th June

Jordan Pickford became England’s most expensive keeper in history after completing a £25m move to Everton from Sunderland. This move comes after a successful season, and also increases his chances of being selected by the national team.

Huddersfield secured promotion via the play-offs in a nervy style as they beat Reading on penalties. Here is a summing-up of their very successful season.

Huddersfield had finished 19th, 17th, 16th and 19th in their previous four seasons since getting promoted to the Championship.

With the club in need of change, they sacked Chris Powell and appointed David Wagner before the 2015/2016 season in the hope that he could turn around the situation at the club.

His first season was unsuccessful as he led the Terriers to a 19th place finish.

The German made a huge statement to the club and the league as he started his second season off in style by going six games unbeaten, a big change from last season, when they didn’t win a single game within that same period.

Despite their good opening few games, some runs of bad form made them drop down a few places in the league.

In the January transfer window, Huddersfield didn’t buy many players, however, Isiah Brown was one of them, a winger who played a big part in their promotion.

The club finished 5th, inside the play-off positions.

They won their semi-final across two legs against Sheffield Wednesday and progressed to the final along with Reading.

Tensions were high as both clubs knew the importance of this game.

It went into extra-time, then penalties.

The nail-biting shoot-out ended 4-3 to Huddersfield and the whole crowd and players went mad because they were going to play Premier League football next season.

Walking football is a game now played by many people across the UK and there are almost nine hundred venues in England alone.

Walking football is very much aimed at people over fifty, who want to rediscover their old footballing days. The reason that this sport is aimed at people of that age is the rules mean you can only walk, which is better suited for the muscles of people over fifty because as you would expect it’s hard to run if you’re that age.

The rules are, obviously, you can’t run, the ball cannot travel above hip height, in some clubs and some games they do not have goalkeepers and lastly, you can’t slide tackle. Now those are the main rule differences between the regular game, but there are other minor changes.

The game has been encouraged by the BBC, Sky Sports and most famously Barclays bank who made an advert advertising themselves, but in the proccess talked about walking football.

I think this is a brilliant game and a very good idea, so I would recommend it for many people.

I’ve really been enjoying writing my blog for the first month. Thank you for anyone who has been reading this website, I really appreciate it. I hope to continue this blog for a long time. I understand that it’s not very popular now, but I hope as I do it for longer it will grow gradually bigger. I can’t wait to find out how the table will look at the end of the season.