Bradford's James and Miley Dunn following England to Berlin

The 13-year-old and dad James have got tickets for tonight’s final against Spain – the fifth England game they will have seen in the tournament.

There has been a contingent of City fans who have followed the fortunes of Gareth Southgate’s men on the road.

But few have taken in the sights like the Dunns.

The gaps between games have allowed them the chance to jump on the train to pop to Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Ypres – visiting the grave of City’s FA Cup winner Jimmy Speirs.

James and Miley Dunn celebrate England's semi-final win (Image: UGC)

“We just made it up as we went along,” James told the T&A from Berlin.

“It breaks it up rather than just being in Germany and hanging round all the bars.

“We just nip out the country for a couple of days to go sight-seeing and then come back.

“We were only going to come out for the Denmark game and then go back via Paris. It was just a short trip.

“But then we fell lucky from the England travel club getting tickets for the Slovenia game.

“We came back home for the round of 16 but after (Jude) Bellingham got that late goal, we went back out and have stayed on now until we win it!”

He is convinced that England’s name is on the trophy in their first foreign final.

“It just seems to be written in the stars. Everything is falling for us.

“We were seconds from going out the tournament then Bellingham scores. We win a penalty shoot-out, we win in the last minute – sometimes it’s just meant to be.

“It was just boring initially, like watching City under Mark Hughes passing it sideways and back.

“But they’ve got better and the atmosphere at the games has been unreal.

“Ollie Watkins’ goal (to win the semi-final against Netherlands) was right up there with James Hanson scoring at Villa Park.

“It’s strange with England, though, because when Hanson scored it was just the City fans having that feeling.

Meeting up with fellow City fans Jordan and Annette Green and well-known England follower Andy Milne (Image: UGC)

“Whereas this is everywhere. I keep saying to Miley that I don’t think she’ll appreciate what she’s seen until we get back home and everyone is going, ‘wow, you were there’.

“She’s the only kid in her school who’s here. You go through the whole city of Bradford and there won’t be many kids who will have attended the Euro final.

“It’s not until we’ve put a bit of a scrapbook together and look back in a year’s time and you’ll realise how big it was.”

The pair have paid 1,000 Euros each for final ticket – he doesn’t want to know how much the whole bill from the trip will come to.

There’s also the possibility of a fine for taking Miley out of her school, St Mary’s in Menston.

Flying their Euros flag in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris (Image: UGC)

“People keep asking how we’ve got round the situation with missing school.

“But I was just honest with them at the start of the year when we began to book it.

“We’ve kept in contact with school, emailing them photographs and stuff like that. “We emailed the pictures we took in Paris to her French teacher.

“I think secretly they are egging her on a little bit.

“It probably will be the case that I end up with a fine but you’d take that to see England win the Euros.”

Miley Dunn outside the Olympiastadion Berlin, venue for tonight's final (Image: UGC)