School Football team see the Under 21 England V Spain game at Pride Park the home of Derby County

The teams line up before the kick off

Pride Park is a lovely stadium and even though we were in the top tier of seats, the view of the pitch was superb.
Thanks to Mr Hughes’ "Sat Nav" we found the place easily.

Kick off

Programme cover
Talking of which, Mr Hughes, you owe me £2!

Mr Hughes text messaging before the game gets going

The ticket

And plan of the stadium

Mexican waves

Action shots

The first half was quite scrappy with Spain
having the edge and a 2-0 lead by half time

More action shots

The lads enjoyed the evening.
We didn’t get back to Cheslyn Hay until after midnight!

Welcome page from the programme
Shouldn’t there be an “e” at the end of “welcome”!!??

Spain
“S” missing from Guests!
Put English grammar back into football programmes!

England squad

This was Stuart Pearce’s first game since he took over as Manager of the England Under-21 side as well as managing Manchester City

Corner kick

England came from 2-0 down to force a draw. We could have won the game had the Spanish goalkeeper not made a brilliant save from a long range on target shot from the Manchester United Under 21 player Kieran Richardson

After the game

We waited until the stadium was empty
so that we didn’t lose anyone in the crush

Lita was my man of the match
This was the Guardian newspaper report of the game

The same game reported in the Sun Newspaper

The England Under 21 squad next play 3 fixtures in Holland
The minibus, sadly, is not insured to go overseas

Martin Tibbetts
Friday, 9 February 2007