Win Euro 2008 for England!

The championship dream

As if in some fairytale comicbook storyline, we win back the captaincy for the final. Unless we'd put in the work, though, we might not even have been picked.

Can you see the emotion in our eyes?

We instantly prove ourselves at the highest level, with a hat-trick in under 10 minutes.

Croatia get one back...

But with a fourth magnificent goal, it's all over.

We've won! Terry looks pretty gutted to have been completely stripped of his captaincy, though. Bless.

Carried on the shoulders of our team mates. If we're honest, there was a lump in our throat at this point.

And, finally,we're shown how we stacked up against our rivals in the squad. Amazingly, we've even earned ourselves a Bronze star rating, marking us out as a special talent. Now we can start a brand new campaign with the same created player, with all his developments and skill enhancements intact.

Er, yes. We did play it on easy mode. Why do you ask?

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.