Four years ago I went to London for several good reasons, such as D. and PJ, but also to watch the ever important South Africa 2010 world championships match Slovenia : England on their turf.
The day before the match, the steward on my (British) flight said “Let the best team win” in the cockiest way possible and I imagined him looking straight at me in my Union fan hat.
As I got there, newspapers wrote about knowing their enemy and published the national anthem to sing along.
We were watching the game in a “Slovenian” pub that serves (the wrong) Slovenian beer, and there were ambassadors, journalists, cameras, photographers.
This photographer…
…took this picture. Thank you. Photo of the rest: MM
My friend was interviewed.
It was tense.
Who didn’t drink was definitely not Slovenian.
We were the interesting ones, not the ones on the screen.
As it was, and this is from memory, we were doing just fine and then Rooney did something that appeared as if he’d been fouled, the referee gifted England a penalty kick and they won 1:0. To make matters worse, in the other game in our group USA scored against Algeria in the last possible moment, which meant that USA was in the next round and Slovenia was out.
The beer was gone and Slovenia was out.
Anxious Slovenian fans
Mick McCarthy has good taste in goalkeepers.
And so just earlier I check the Mundial 2014 schedule for today, and here it is, Italy : England, at midnight, and I tell my amore, ha! He’s your problem now!
≈ Manja Maksimovič ≈
If eyes could speak, selfie with Rooney, London, 2010.
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