The situation was bleak, to say the least, at the 2024 European Championship on Sunday, with England trailing Slovakia 1-0 as six minutes of stoppage time dwindled down. England’s lackluster performance to that point had Fox’s Landon Donovan musing, “If you’re an England fan, it must be so hard to watch.”
But England fans still had Jude Bellingham. On the day after his 21st birthday, he delivered a tying goal with 30 seconds left in the fifth minute of stoppage time, executing a bicycle kick that will go down not just as one of the more classic moments in recent English soccer history but arguably the goal of the tournament.