Very odd, just got back from there yesterday, having spent a week there reunited with my great friends from that time...if I had dreamed this could happen I would have booked to stay longer
Was going to a big park in Prague where they have the screens, but the weather's iffy. So Mad Vincent and my brother in law coming round to provide Czech support, and we will symbolically drink beer from the losers Germany...
1990 aged 17. At parents house in West Thamesmead with family. 2018 aged 45. At home in St. Anne's on the Sea, Lancashire. Watching on a big screen in the cinema room (basically the cellar). Youngest might watch with me. Wife has no interest in the game.
2018 - At home with my wife and kids. I keep telling my boys, especially my eldest who is 12 that this will stay with him for the rest of their lives. It’s their Italia 90. Not sure they fully appreciate yet. ..But they will
1990 - pub in Dartford - having been out to the group games as an England Travel Club member was all geared up to going back for the final , no idea why we didnt go back for the semi though. 2018 - Pub tbc in West London
1990- Bentley’s restaurant, Elstead Surrey in the kitchen watching a TV propped on a stock pot as we had no guests 2018- White Rose, Luxembourg City with @The_President and my eldest daughter wearing bicycle clips as my nerves are shot
1990 at The Stones gig at Wembley (still haven't seen the match)
2018 I will be at home posting some pearlers on the Brexit thread...
Didn't they delay coming on till after pens?
No - loads of us were watching on handheld tvs / listening to radio and when Lineker scored there was such a cheer that Mick Jagger visibly stopped in the middle of a song
1990 -aged 11 on first family holiday abroad, in the south of France.
2018 - back in UK visiting family, which luckily coincided with the quarters and semi-finals. If we win tonight I'm seriously thinking of changing my Friday flight so I'm still in England for the final.
1990 Age 22- Prince of Wales Plumstead Common.How i wished it would be again.Great pub. 2018 Age 50- Nearest pub to it the Fox and Hounds.Hopefully a different result 28 years on.
1990: 32, Watched at home with my Dad who is no longer with us.
2018: 60, Picking my 93 year old mum up and taking her home to watch it with me. I told her to pick what we have for dinner and I will cook as my wife will not be home before kick off. She has gone for steak & kidney pudding so I hope tomorrow’s is not 30c or she will be getting a salad
So there I was was watching the game last night with my 93 year old Mum when she turns to me and says. "I cant quite read the score in the corner of the screen Mike, what does it say CROydon 1 ENGland 1?
UPDATED - WEMBLEY 96 AND WEMBLEY 21 (although this time comparing a final with a semi final...)
1996 - 23 In final year at Uni, exams had finished but still a few weeks left of "term". Life was great. Watched on a small television in communal living room that had a hideous brown and orange fake leather sofa. After the game went down to Clowns and Jesters (those that know know...)
2021 - 48 At home with wife and kids -probably a BBQ and a few beers from 6ish with a few friends coming round - they can then bugger off and leave us to watch the final as a family.
1996 - Remember sitting in my living room with my Dad watching the agony 2021 - I'll be downstairs on my own, wife will be upstairs, staying out of my way, son will be asleep
1996 - At home with mum and dad as an 8 year old. Truly broke my heart when we lost on penalties.
2021 - Have been down my local in Woolwich for all England games and want to keep the run going, but most mates seem intent on doing the stay at home thing, so might be on my own. I don’t want to let a big occasion like this just pass by whilst sitting indoors.
18 - At my mates house, he lived like 2 mins walk away. I had refundable flights to Moscow for the final as had a provisional ticket if England made it. Had to cancel them no later than 48 hours before it departed, had to be home by 11PM to get money back.
Turin 90 I was 2 years old Moscow 18 I was in the white hart in Orpington Wembley 20/21 I will be in my living room with my housemate like all the rest of the games. Can’t change now because I will jinx it 😂 ITS COMING HOME 🏴🏴🏴
2018 - after being in Russia for the Colombia game, made the terrible decision to watch the semi with my mate in a ridiculously posh and half-empty pub near his house in Henley.
90 home with parents aged 16 paid my mate to take my shift at Safeway’s a fiver 96 the Odds in Dartford aged 22 18 in the Inn on the Green Billericay aged 44 21 Wembley stadium the home of football aged 47 with my boy 17 its coming home believe
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2018 - Aged 58 - Around at a friends house
Very odd, just got back from there yesterday, having spent a week there reunited with my great friends from that time...if I had dreamed this could happen I would have booked to stay longer
Was going to a big park in Prague where they have the screens, but the weather's iffy. So Mad Vincent and my brother in law coming round to provide Czech support, and we will symbolically drink beer from the losers Germany...
2018 - Barcelona, wherever they show it outside.
2018 - aged 39, at my house (this place will never be my home!) in Perth, Australia. 2 am kick off here.
2018 aged 45. At home in St. Anne's on the Sea, Lancashire. Watching on a big screen in the cinema room (basically the cellar). Youngest might watch with me. Wife has no interest in the game.
2018 - at home with my son
2018 - At home with my wife and kids.
I keep telling my boys, especially my eldest who is 12 that this will stay with him for the rest of their lives. It’s their Italia 90. Not sure they fully appreciate yet. ..But they will
2018 I will be at home posting some pearlers on the Brexit thread...
2018 - Pub tbc in West London
2018- White Rose, Luxembourg City with @The_President and my eldest daughter wearing bicycle clips as my nerves are shot
The Sheaf, next to Borough High Street, 2018.
2018 - back in UK visiting family, which luckily coincided with the quarters and semi-finals. If we win tonight I'm seriously thinking of changing my Friday flight so I'm still in England for the final.
2018 Age 50- Nearest pub to it the Fox and Hounds.Hopefully a different result 28 years on.
2018 - Age 56 Half Door pub Hartford CT USA
"No Mum, we are playing Croatia, not Croydon
1996 - 23
In final year at Uni, exams had finished but still a few weeks left of "term". Life was great. Watched on a small television in communal living room that had a hideous brown and orange fake leather sofa. After the game went down to Clowns and Jesters (those that know know...)
2021 - 48
At home with wife and kids -probably a BBQ and a few beers from 6ish with a few friends coming round - they can then bugger off and leave us to watch the final as a family.
2021 - I'll be downstairs on my own, wife will be upstairs, staying out of my way, son will be asleep
1996 - in a random pub near Charing Cross on my own because I couldn't find my mates and didn't have a mobile!
2018 in the local cricket club, had been in there since about 3, I was between jobs and loving life.
For other reasons as well 96 and 18 are probably the best summers of my life.
2021 - Have been down my local in Woolwich for all England games and want to keep the run going, but most mates seem intent on doing the stay at home thing, so might be on my own. I don’t want to let a big occasion like this just pass by whilst sitting indoors.
Moscow 18 I was in the white hart in Orpington
Wembley 20/21 I will be in my living room with my housemate like all the rest of the games.
Can’t change now because I will jinx it 😂
ITS COMING HOME 🏴🏴🏴
1996 - 4 years old, probably lying in my bunkbed in Chislehurst
2018 - Hyde Park, London
2021 - Probably at the Liberty Square pub in Downtown Vancouver
1996 Working in a pub in Calella, Spain
2018 Los Angeles British pub, dont remember the name
2021 at home
1996 - the Camden Arms, Sevenoaks with mates
2018 - after being in Russia for the Colombia game, made the terrible decision to watch the semi with my mate in a ridiculously posh and half-empty pub near his house in Henley.
2021 - Wembley Stadium (all being well)
96 the Odds in Dartford aged 22
18 in the Inn on the Green Billericay aged 44
21 Wembley stadium the home of football aged 47 with my boy 17
its coming home believe