The England Retrospective, Part 16

A pint of wine for the gentleman.

I always remember speaking to my mother in 2010. England, if you remember, had been knocked out of the World Cup to Germany, losing 4-1 on the day. “We’re the laughing stock of the world”, she told me. That wasn’t true, I thought. Most of the world just didn’t really care about England. We were a mediocre football team that no one beyond our borders had…