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July 06 What the world cup means back homeWhen you play in a big world cup match, you know it's massive back home but you never quite appreciate the sheer scale of it - or at least, you don’t see the details. It's not just 50 million supporters back home, it's that there is only one game on and it's yours, it's that people are watching all over the world. It's only afterwards when you come home that you reflect on it and someone says: "Oh, you should have seen the pub when you scored". And then you think: "How many pubs are there in England? And how many households?" You know it's big but sometimes it takes somebody to say something like that for you to fully appreciate it, to think: "Yeah, it must be unbelievable."
I was an England fan once myself as a kid so I have been through the traumas of getting knocked out on penalties in Italy; I know the highs and lows. It will be strange when I retire and go back to being a fan again. After all, that's what all of us are - as well as players, we're all fans. It's great to be able to do something about it, instead of watching it on the telly and kicking every ball but doing it emotionally rather than physically. TrackbacksWeblogs that reference this entry
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