16:14 BST
James Kelly
BBC News
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Danny met Noel Gallagher at Wembley Stadium in 2021
Danny Pearson, from Newark-on-Trent, is going to the Oasis gig in Cardiff tonight on his 44th birthday.
He met Noel Gallagher at the UEFA Euro 2020 final in July 2021 at Wembley Stadium in London which he says was “nearly the best day of his life” – until his joy was shattered when England lost on penalties to Italy.
“I went to my first Oasis gig in 1995 at Trentham Gardens in Stoke. Oasis were supported by The Verve. I’d have been about 13 then,” he tells the BBC.
“It was good because it was an intimate, small gig – 2,000 maybe, 3,000 people max. After that, all the gigs got on a much bigger scale.”
He says it couldn’t be better for today’s gig to have fallen on his birthday.
Speaking of meeting Noel four years ago, he says: “I didn’t see Noel until after we scored. As we scored, I turned around and Noel was three rows behind me, so I ran up to him to have a little bit of a cuddle.
“I was cuddling Noel for about 10 seconds, which was unreal, you couldn’t make that up.
“That was almost the best day of my life… until the penalty shootout.”