Tommy the Trumpeter and youngster Blake Gustafson are pictured with Bonny Lass, an Eagle Owl from the Northumbria Birds of Prey Centre. Were you there at the Brinkburn Community Association's open day?Tommy the Trumpeter and youngster Blake Gustafson are pictured with Bonny Lass, an Eagle Owl from the Northumbria Birds of Prey Centre. Were you there at the Brinkburn Community Association's open day?
Tommy the Trumpeter and youngster Blake Gustafson are pictured with Bonny Lass, an Eagle Owl from the Northumbria Birds of Prey Centre. Were you there at the Brinkburn Community Association's open day?

Football's coming home! 11 pictures of life in South Tyneside in the year that Euro 96 gripped the nation

Remember when THAT song dominated the charts – and the football chants that came with it?

Remember when England came within a whisker of knocking Germany of the tournament?

Or how about that David Seaman penalty save? It was a cracking summer and Euro 96 gripped the nation.

It’s all about to come back into the spotlight when the whole tournament is re-screened on television from Monday.

But what was happening back in South Tyneside that year? Here is a reminder.