Harry Kane makes history against Czechia, and viewers reach back to 1966

ITV Sport's Wembley highlights drew close to 700,000 views in seven hours, and the comment section was already more than five times busier than on a usual full first day.

Channel: ITV Sport Story of October 7, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,566,186 views a day, 42 times a normal first day on this channel (37,548).

HIGHLIGHTS - England v Czechia | Harry Kane Makes History! | UEFA Nations League

What does this England team look like to the people watching it? Going by the comments under ITV Sport's highlights of England v Czechia, it looks like a side many of them say they have never seen before.

The reel, titled around the promise that "Harry Kane Makes History!", gathered close to 700,000 views in its first seven hours. On this channel a new highlights video usually collects a small fraction of that over a whole day. The comments moved even faster: in those seven hours they ran to more than five times what a typical first day brings.

This was the return meeting at Wembley, after ITV Sport's reel from the game in Prague and the seven-goal night in Rijeka. The channel's shorter clips from the same evening call it Kane's record-equalling night. Jude Bellingham got a short of his own reflecting on it, and Thomas Tuchel's verdict on England's Nations League start went up alongside.

Under the video, the talk is mostly about how England played. One viewer in his seventies says he cannot remember this kind of fluid football since 1966, and a Brazilian calls it the most beautiful football around. Trent Alexander-Arnold's crosses come up again and again, along with a side argument from several viewers that he should have gone to the World Cup. Others replay a Czech defender's own goal, struck with a finish any striker would have wanted, only into his own net.

The evening had a softer side too: Bukayo Saka handing a gift to a young fan got its own short the same day.

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The numbers

The Wembley highlights opened far ahead of anything this channel usually sees on a first day, and the comments arrived faster still.

the video's first day

usual first day here

37,548

this video

1,566,186

subscribers

668,000

▲ 4,000 in the last 7 days

total views

564,900,118

views per day

537,604

typical day: 1,876,122

the video

views

683,497

likes

5,180

comments

777

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

West Ham United FC

787,000

The Athletic FC

707,000

ITV Sport

668,000

Pêche Football

664,000

UnitedPeoplesTV

630,000

Sky Sports Retro

569,000

As of October 7, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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