FIFA World Cup USA vs. England

The game between the US and England was at 3:30am in Korea, so everyone had to do a lot of drinking and dart playing and such beforehand. The bar was as packed as I've seen it since then, there being so many Americans and Brits in Ulsan. The rivalry was strong, but there were no fights.








This is kind of a weird picture, but I took it to show how little space I had while watching the game. I was sitting on a windowsill with some other people, and the chairs in front of us kept getting inched closer and closer to let other drunken people stumble into the space and crouch down (or not, and get yelled at) to talk to the people in that area.


Here are a bunch of Americans. A couple of us found it amusing that the guy in red in the middle is holding crib notes for the USA chants they must have just made up for the game.




This guy on the left was hilarious. He's a friend of Emily's and came to meet Michael, on the right, but was so drunk, he held out his hand and fell flat forward into Michael, and almost flew out the window. Michael got kind of defensive and thought he was under unintentional attack, but then they worked it out and had a long inebriated conversation.



The game ended in a tie, which was disappointing to all. I think all the England supporters were surprised that we managed a point, but seemed to blame it on a moment of poor goalkeeping (considering the circumstance of our score) than on actual skill by the Americans. On the other hand, the Americans all seemed proud of keeping up and assumed all along we wouldn't lose outright, at the least.