England win Women’s Euro 2022 final: all the reaction – live!

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We can expect more scenes like this today, then.

Public celebrations can continue on Monday with a daytime event scheduled at Trafalgar Square, where fans will be able to join a Q and A session with the victorious players and their manager, my colleague Gemma McSherry reports. Fans will be able to turn up and gain admission on a first-come, first served basis from 11am and the event will be broadcast on live on BBC One and BBC iPlayer from 12.40pm.

England’s “history makers” obviously make both the front and back pages of this morning’s UK papers, with plenty of predictable references in headlines to “coming home”, “years of hurt” and so on. Read them all here:

Where to start? How about with the views of the Women’s Football Weekly podcast crew? Faye Carruthers, Suzanne Wrack, Ceylon Andi Hickman and Jonathan Liew got together in a Premier Inn room to digest the enormity of what they witnessed at Wembley – and what the future holds for the women’s game. Take a listen here:

It’s the sentence many thought they might never read again, but here we are: England have won a major football trophy. It’s been a long 56 years since the nation’s last title-winning side beat Germany in extra time at Wembley. This time around – against the same old foes, at the same north London venue and again after extra time – it was the women’s team who made history and united the country in celebration.

Understandably since the full-time whistle blew, reaction has been rather delirious. People danced the the Trafalgar Square fountains at full-time, there were wild celebrations in Manchester’s fan zone, the players themselves gatecrashed a press conference and even the Queen got involved, offering her (slightly less unhinged) congratulations to Sarina Wiegman’s team. The calls for an extra bank holiday to be granted are sure to be amplified today.

I’ll be here to take you through the early hours of the morning as the nation wakes up, a large proportion of which is quite possibly harbouring a sizeable hangover. Please do get in touch on mike.hytner@theguardian.com or on Twitter @mike_hytner, with any thoughts on the game, the newly-crowned European champions or the future of women’s football.