England versus Wales, a ‘Battle of Britain’ as the press referred to it.

This was the biggest England game I had been and it had a feel of England v Germany in Bloemfontein in 2010, which we all know didn't end well from an English standpoint.

This was one of my most eagerly anticipated games in any of the five tournaments I have followed the Three Lions in.

We started our journey form Marseille , our base, to Lens on Wednesday.

This was a 10-hour drive to Reims where we would stay the night before continuing our long journey towards Lens early on Thursday morning with another two-hour drive.

Finally, we arrive in the Small city of Lens, greeted by typical English weather of rain and wind, which was very fitting for the teams that were playing.

It was clear Lens couldn't quite handle a game of that magnitude with traffic issues and the fact we had to trek around to three separate locations to collect our tickets. However, when collecting our final ticket we did get to spent some time with England fans’ favourite Chris Kamara, which is always a good thing.

I attended the game with My Father Trevor, Brother Carl, His friend Matthew and our great family friends Garry and Grant Hill.

This game had special meaning to me with myself being English and my mother who was a proud Welsh women, she sadly passed away in 2010, but I know she would have been in Lens singing her heart out to Land Of Our Fathers, if she could be.

I am proud to have been there listening to the Welsh fans sing their national anthem from the rafters which was soon followed by the majority of the stadium singing God Save Our Queen, as loud as I have ever heard it at a football stadium.

Roy Hodgson started with the same starting eleven, a decision I agreed with even though there was a huge case to see Raheem Sterling stripped of his place in the starting side.

The game itself was very one-sided, as I felt the Russia game was, in the first half we had the majority of possession and did create a few chances which we couldn't take advance of.

However, it was clear that Sterling once again wasn't interested or feeling confident in his ability and Harry Kane looked like a tired player who had spent a whole season as a lone striker.

Right on the stroke of half-time Wayne Rooney committed a foul in a very dangerous area when you have one of the world’s best players on the opposing side.

In true Gareth Bale fashion he scored in the big game and celebrated very passionately, much to the dismay of many England fans that did think Joe Hart should have saved the free-kick.

England were booed at half-time, but the fans were back on side when Roy made two changes at the break.

Daniel Sturridge is our best striker when he is fit and Jamie Vardy is a man in form that gets the crowd into the game, both players made huge contributions to the final result and should have staked their claim to start against Slovakia in St Ettiene on Monday.

Vardy bundled home a scrappy goal, which is what he is there to do, even though at the time the whole stadium, including Vardy himself thought the goal was going to be disallowed for being offside.

Thankfully this wasn't the case. England began to press Wales even higher up the pitch and didn't let them out of their half at all in the second half, Kyle Walker and Rooney were once again England's stand out players that kept knocking on the door throughout the second half.

The second half also saw the tournament debut of Marcus Rashford, a very bold move from Roy, which was applauded by the fans and did cause Wales a few problems through his blistering pace.

After continually knocking on the Welsh door another neat move managed to fall to Sturridge who slotted home with is "wrong foot" causing the players, staff and fans to erupt with joy.

Bale had a chance to pinch a point for the Welsh after a clever run, but he headed wide.

Queue the final whistle and huge celebrations for the English players and fans! The passion of both players and fans alike showed what a big win this was. Onto Slovakia to try and win the group.