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Congratulations to the England women's football (soccer) team, AKA. The Lionesses, who won the Euros final earlier tonight. Victory came in a dramatic penalty shoot-out when the match ended 1-1 after extra time. This means that they retain the title which they first won in 2022. They beat Spain who won the World Cup against them in 2023. Over the past few years, the English team (men's and women's) have adopted Neil Diamond's 'Sweet Caroline' as an unofficial anthem, so I'll post this to celebrate.

Games only go to penalties in knockout tournaments, so here's how tonight's shoot-out went: ETA. The original video I posted got blocked overnight, so here's a less good video filmed from behind the goal.

Watching through 'Along Came a Duke' earlier, I remembered that it was the episode which used the Warner Ranch as a filming location - see my earlier posts here. Sadly, all the famous buildings on the ranch e.g. the Bewitched house, the Lethal Weapon house, the Christmas Vacation house, the Friends fountain etc. were demolished a couple of years ago to make way for additional sound stages. I found this video which documents some of the other buildings on the ranch. This longer video shows the buildings mid-demolition, and highlights the ones I mentioned above.