Young Herefordshire fans on TV at England's first Euro match

Andrew Turner and his family have just got back from watching England’s first Euro match of the year in Germany.

The Turners in Germany to support our England players (Image: Andrew Turner)

The family were stood just “two rows from the front” of the Gelsenkirchen stadium and did the county proud as they “managed to drape a Hereford FC George Cross near the goal.”

The Turners weren’t the only Hereford FC supporters in the audience. John and Paul Tanswell also held their Hereford FC England flag high, proud to support the England team and show their pride for the local club.

John and Paul Tanswell with their Hereford FC flag in Germany (Image: Phil Tanswell)

Ecstatic to be at the match, Mr and Mrs Turner's two boys, 12-year-old Noah, a Bishops student, and 11-year-old St Pauls Primary pupil Jacob, were even featured on the TV celebrating, and beamed around the world, when England scored their goal.

Noah and Jacob were featured in the TV coverage of the Euro match (Image: Andrew Turner / BBC Breakfast)

When the Turner family arrived back in the UK, everyone at the boy’s schools “were so excited to see them on Sunday night while watching the match at home”, said Mr Turner.

They have "become little Hereford celebrities”, he said.

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The crowd continued to go wild even days after the match in Noah’s classroom when the episode of BBC’s Newsround they were watching starred Noah himself in footage from the match.

The stadium was absolutely brimming with football fans (Image: Andrew Turner)

Noah and Jacob were particularly pleased to see Herefordshire’s own Jarrod Bowen playing in the England team. Stood only four metres away from the Leominster-born footballer, the two boys were pleased to get a big thumbs up from the player they so admired.

Mr Turner said he was so happy to have had the opportunity to take his wife and two boys to the England v Serbia game, having won their tickets in the UEFA lottery.

He summed the experience up as “incredible”.