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It can’t have been easy to keep the England v Mexico football World Cup result from these children, but the pay-off was priceless.
This morning, BBC Breakfast reporter Fiona Lamdin had the fantastic job of joining a group of primary school-aged kids in their assembly hall while they watched last night’s game for the first time.
Like the red and white face-painted pupils behind her, Fiona had no idea what the score was and live reacted on TV as Thomas Tuchel’s squad came one step closer to bringing it home.
As the final whistle blew, and England secured their place in the quarter-final, the children erupted into screams of joy as they jumped up and down, hugging one another.
Fiona looked as shocked and excited as everybody else – looking into the camera, she shouted: ‘I literally can’t believe it!’
The presenter then went on to get the reaction of the students, who looked stunned by the result at the Estadio Azteca.
Some appeared too startled to speak as they digested what was happening.
As Fiona made her way across the hall, she spoke to one young boy who had been avoiding his dad all morning, so as not to ruin the surprise: ‘He would have literally run down the stairs and gone: “Yeah!!!”‘
Fiona replied: ‘What a good dad, he kept the secret!’
One girl described the post-match feeling as ‘absolutely amazing’.
Users on X agreed with the sentiment – Marguerite Celestine Rothwell said: ‘Absolutely amazing indeed! You can feel the energy through the screen. Moments like this are why we love the beautiful game.’
Will exclaimed: ‘Love this. Those children will have memories for life now.’
In another segment from the show, Fiona was live at the school in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, when Harry Kane took his penalty in the 60th minute.
Moments before, the reporter was talking to a young boy who was recounting Jude Bellingham’s first goal animatedly: ‘I was over there getting toast, but as soon as he scored his first goal you could see everyone jumping up and down, it was amazing.’
After Kane’s penalty, the youngster could be seen on his feet, pumping his fists in the air as he celebrated England’s third goal of the game.
Under the video, viewers were moved by the scenes. Jameson wrote: ‘This is proper wholesome. Giving 400 children the real-time experience of the match – they’ll remember this morning forever.’
Timothy Radford commented: ‘Got to be the highlight of a BBC journalist’s career.’
And one user thought back to his own similar experience back in the day: ‘Bit better than seeing Seaman let a looping cross in over his head!’
BBC Breakfast returns to BBC One at 6am tomorrow.