ten years after - where were you?

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surfgurl

New Member
Location
Somerset
Funnily enough we were driving across Germany to Lake Garda for a holiday with the kids. We did wonder what all the horn toots and flashing lights were about. We didn't hear about the score till we reached the campsite in Italy.
 

gallego1968

New Member
Location
East Barnet
I was there with my dad, my dad lives in Spain and i got him a ticket with my mates. The wife kids and i flew to Spain for a holiday, the next day my dad and i flew up to Germany to the hotel we were staying at with my mates, watched the match and went back to Spain the next day to carry on with my holiday. Brilliant few days out there.
 

subaqua

What’s the point
Location
Leytonstone
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!


good lordy another one of us from the bit of N Wales that don't have an identity, on the boards. Ewloe, Hawarden or Mancot for you ?? Top end of Liverpool road here , with many a good night spent in the Crown and Liver.

Back to the OP I was likely helping my wife deal with our newest arrival, my eldest daughter. :ohmy:
 

Hacienda71

Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
I was in a hotel in Greece. There were lots of German speakers there. I was quite shocked when most of them cheered when England scored. The bar man told me they were Austrians :laugh:
 

MissTillyFlop

Evil communist dictator, lover of gerbils & Pope.
good lordy another one of us from the bit of N Wales that don't have an identity, on the boards. Ewloe, Hawarden or Mancot for you ?? Top end of Liverpool road here , with many a good night spent in the Crown and Liver.

Back to the OP I was likely helping my wife deal with our newest arrival, my eldest daughter. :ohmy:

Hawarden.

Although I was more of a Tiv girl (Did spend much of "the drinking years" either behind teh co-op or on the golf course down tinkersdale). Never went to the pub except the Fox & Grapes on Christmas Day, as they had known me since I was 7 and they wouldn't serve me :angry:

I wish I had been into cycling when I lived there! Only had a crappy bike out "the Littlewood's boooook" with three gears, so that hill back up from Chester was a nightmare!
 

deptfordmarmoset

Full time tea drinker
Location
Armonmy Way
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

By coincidence, I was driving to do a gig at a wedding reception in Kent that night. (Though I can't remember where exactly - maybe near Biggin Hill?) We got the final result before getting on stage with a complete sense of disbelief.
 

GrumpyGregry

Here for rides.
Glued to the TV in my living room with a bunch of mates all goggle-eyed in amazement as we watched sporting history being made.
 

subaqua

What’s the point
Location
Leytonstone
Hawarden.

Although I was more of a Tiv girl (Did spend much of "the drinking years" either behind teh co-op or on the golf course down tinkersdale). Never went to the pub except the Fox & Grapes on Christmas Day, as they had known me since I was 7 and they wouldn't serve me :angry:

I wish I had been into cycling when I lived there! Only had a crappy bike out "the Littlewood's boooook" with three gears, so that hill back up from Chester was a nightmare!


the Tiv now theres a blast from the past. thursday live band rocknight, friday grab a granny over 21s. Icecold newcastle brown ale ( heresy I know but it was cheaper than a pint) I did have a bike as a kid and used to ride the hill from aerospace up into hawarden every day . the last corner at Gladstones house was a killer. whizzing through tinkers was cool though. and bombing down the warren from the footbridge to the chapel in broughton. aaahhhh jumpers for goalposts anybody
 

srw

It's a bit more complicated than that...
I have a very vague memory of taking advantage of the collective madness to go shopping when everyone else wasn't.

Though, to be fair, that memory could have been of any number of sporting or royal events.
 

MissTillyFlop

Evil communist dictator, lover of gerbils & Pope.
the Tiv now theres a blast from the past. thursday live band rocknight, friday grab a granny over 21s. Icecold newcastle brown ale ( heresy I know but it was cheaper than a pint) I did have a bike as a kid and used to ride the hill from aerospace up into hawarden every day . the last corner at Gladstones house was a killer. whizzing through tinkers was cool though. and bombing down the warren from the footbridge to the chapel in broughton. aaahhhh jumpers for goalposts anybody

Ah, I used to go Wednesday Indie Night, Thursday Live rock and Saturday rock. Once made the mistake of going to a Friday foam party - WRONG!
 
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