"We have a favor to ask," Phil from Southampton told me on a rainy cold October morning in Munich. We were heating up some water for coffee with a Bunson burner
"Yeah," Lloyd said. "A really big favor."
They wanted me to bail a Scouser girl out of a police station, not to mention another girl from Southampton.
I never regretted it. We had a lot of fun. Those four, a Glaswegian, a girl who claimed to be Hawaiian, but could only communicate with me in Spanish and German, a Hessian, a Rhinelander, a Kiwi, another English girl and me were Wir sind alle Preussen ’We’re all Prussians’. We sang a football chant to unite in crowds, but I can’t remember what it was. Rain for thirty days and thirty nights. Rescuing gold rings from Bayrisch pawnshops. Phil and Joanne having the ultimate argument while sitting in a little car with one broken window in the rain. "You always say something will turn up. Well I’m the one who always has to turn it up." "If we aren’t going to have fun, what are we here for?" They wouldn’t let me spend another pfennig. It’s nice when you decide to trust people others might not, and they make you glad you did. The Liverpool girl was Rita from "Educating Rita" to a T and had the best comeback I’ve ever heard in my life. Phil was a Jack the Lad with ethics, including work, Lloyd was 100% straightforward and decent and Joanne was a third generation bohemian and slacker.
I followed international football, and thought I might be able to find a PL team to root for so I could have a reason to watch football more often. Remembering Phil, Lloyd and Joanne , I choose Southampton. I never found out if Jill followed Everton or Liverpool, but might have guessed neither. The problem, as I soon found out, was that Southampton was not in the Prem, so I couldn’t watch them. My wife started to get interested in club football, and asked which PL team she should root for. I suggested Spurs. You don’t pick a club. Your club picks you. Soon she was updating me on Spurs. Then I was yelling at screens.
The red and white in redwhiteandermblue refers to Southampton’s colors. The third color brings in the US flag. Then it also described how I progressed from trying and failing to be a Southampton fan to becoming a much more rabid and sometimes disappointed Spurs fan than I ever planned to be.
"Yeah," Lloyd said. "A really big favor."
They wanted me to bail a Scouser girl out of a police station, not to mention another girl from Southampton.
I never regretted it. We had a lot of fun. Those four, a Glaswegian, a girl who claimed to be Hawaiian, but could only communicate with me in Spanish and German, a Hessian, a Rhinelander, a Kiwi, another English girl and me were Wir sind alle Preussen ’We’re all Prussians’. We sang a football chant to unite in crowds, but I can’t remember what it was. Rain for thirty days and thirty nights. Rescuing gold rings from Bayrisch pawnshops. Phil and Joanne having the ultimate argument while sitting in a little car with one broken window in the rain. "You always say something will turn up. Well I’m the one who always has to turn it up." "If we aren’t going to have fun, what are we here for?" They wouldn’t let me spend another pfennig. It’s nice when you decide to trust people others might not, and they make you glad you did. The Liverpool girl was Rita from "Educating Rita" to a T and had the best comeback I’ve ever heard in my life. Phil was a Jack the Lad with ethics, including work, Lloyd was 100% straightforward and decent and Joanne was a third generation bohemian and slacker.
I followed international football, and thought I might be able to find a PL team to root for so I could have a reason to watch football more often. Remembering Phil, Lloyd and Joanne , I choose Southampton. I never found out if Jill followed Everton or Liverpool, but might have guessed neither. The problem, as I soon found out, was that Southampton was not in the Prem, so I couldn’t watch them. My wife started to get interested in club football, and asked which PL team she should root for. I suggested Spurs. You don’t pick a club. Your club picks you. Soon she was updating me on Spurs. Then I was yelling at screens.
The red and white in redwhiteandermblue refers to Southampton’s colors. The third color brings in the US flag. Then it also described how I progressed from trying and failing to be a Southampton fan to becoming a much more rabid and sometimes disappointed Spurs fan than I ever planned to be.
