ten years after - where were you?

[dellzeqq]

I was at a wedding reception in Kent. No telly, no news. As we drove home through Orpington we started to see fireworks in the sky - red white and blue ones. By the time we got to Lewisham it was as if Guy Fawkes night had come early. People were out on the streets in their thousands, grinning like loons.

Susie switched on the car radio. Germany 1 - England 5. Michael Owen had scored three, and Beckham had turned in the kind of performance that sets him apart from any other England player in my recollection.

Somebody had, somehow, got in to a church and started ringing church bells. People were smiling and waving. We were a nation united in our adoration of all things Sven.

Sic transit gloria mundi

 

[funnymummy]

I was behind the bar serving the drinks as fast as I could - That night also holds the record for the most amount of drinks the landlady ever got bought too!

 

[Cheddar George]

What a day !!!

Listened to the match in the back of a car driving back from Lords having watched the mighty Somerset put Leicestershire to the sword in the one-day final. You could see the faces of people in other cars as the goals went in.

It's been a bit of an anticlimax since then ....... in both respects.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I have no idea what you're on about. Consequently, I also have no idea what I was doing. 1st Sept 2001? Doesn't ring any bells.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Google tells me that we - that is to say, a football team called "England" - won some kind of football thing. Which means I'd have been doing my best to avoid everything about it.

 

[User482]

I was at a wedding reception in Yorkshire. I sneaked next door to watch the match, with the bride's brothers. I expected a bollocking when she found us, but she sat down with us and watched the second half.

Happily, my friends' marriage has turned out rather better than the fortunes of the England football team.

 

[MissTillyFlop]

Hmm, as a Wales supporter, probably mowing the lawn in a Germany shirt...

I am obviously a curse on whichever team I support!

 

[ianrauk]

Hmm, as a Wales supporter, probably mowing the lawn in a Germany shirt...

I am obviously a curse on whichever team I support!

Lol.. same here....

 

[Fnaar]

I think I watched it at home with a tinnie or two. I was starting a new job on the Monday after, so was probably a bit preoccupied with that.

 

[Archie_tect]

What were you doing on the evening of Saturday 1st September 2001?

Not a clue officer.

 

[theclaud]

Hmm, as a Wales supporter, probably mowing the lawn in a Germany shirt...

I am obviously a curse on whichever team I support!

Lol.. same here....

I was in the bar in Swansea Student Union. They don't like to draw attention to it, but lots of Welsh folk down this way quietly support England when it comes to football, though obviously quite the opposite with rugby. Mind you, I speak as someone who persuaded a German friend to wear an England shirt for the '98 World Cup. She even cried when England went out, despite a soft spot for Batistuta .

 

[Hilldodger]

Sadly I never saw Ten Years After

 

[MissTillyFlop]

I was in the bar in Swansea Student Union. They don't like to draw attention to it, but lots of Welsh folk down this way quietly support England when it comes to football, though obviously quite the opposite with rugby. Mind you, I speak as someone who persuaded a German friend to wear an England shirt for the '98 World Cup. She even cried when England went out, despite a soft spot for Batistuta .

Ah, I lived in North Wales (AKA "the unfriendly bit"). It's odd as I am actually English, but probably switched over my support to Wales as I went to the same school as Gary Speed (not at the same time) and I also had a weird obsession with Ian Rush as a child (he had a moustache, so I assumed he must be some sort of clone of my dad!)

I think you must have the gift of the gab, Claud!

 

[User482]

Ah, I lived in North Wales (AKA "the unfriendly bit"). It's odd as I am actually English, but probably switched over my support to Wales as I went to the same school as Gary Speed (not at the same time) and I also had a weird obsession with Ian Rush as a child (he had a moustache, so I assumed he must be some sort of clone of my dad!)

I think you must have the gift of the gab, Claud!

In which case, you also went to the same school as Michael Owen. And my ex. Hang on, you're not my ex, are you?

 

[MissTillyFlop]

In which case, you also went to the same school as Michael Owen. And my ex. Hang on, you're not my ex, are you?

Don't forget Andy Dorman!

Well I was the year above Michael Owen, I try not to mention this as it makes my life's achievements seem even crappier!

Depends who you are!

Don't remember dating HFW!