Blogs from Wembley, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

I was waiting in for a text the other day. Joe Hart had received his text to advise he was being left out the England World Cup squad, so surely Gareth Southgate would have been monitoring my form on a Thursday night. The call for Russia would surely come soon. A text duly arrived the following morning. It wasn't the call to Russia, but an offer of a FA Cup Final ticket. Chelsea v Manchester United. A good consolation, I thought. If anyone cares to read my previous blogs, one could easily get the impression that I am obsessed by football. I am not, but possibly used to have a moderate addiction! I made a serious geographical mistake, when I was a but a young boy. FA Cup Final day was almost a ritual. I would ... read more

Winston Churchill, our then Prime Minister, spoke in the summer of 1940(when there was a bit of a European, African and Asian barney going on); “And now it has come to us to stand alone in the breach, and face the worst that the tyrant's might and enmity can do. Bearing ourselves humbly before God, but conscious that we serve an unfolding purpose, we are ready to defend our native land against the invasion by which it is threatened. We are fighting by ourselves alone; but we are not fighting for ourselves alone.” Autumn. 1963. Winston could have said the same to the England team that played the Rest of World. But he didn't. He didn't have to. Not even if he was still alive. Because the scoe ended up as "England two Rest of the ... read more

Kye took me to see an International Friendly: England vs Holland. Its was outrageous! Holland won 3-2, all 5 goals were scored in the second half, simply exciting. nuff said. a.... read more

It's that time of the week. I am, once again, sitting in Starbucks writing my weekly blog post for you lovely people! So, this week was kind of rough. After spending the week before traveling all over Europe, it was difficult to make myself 'settle down.' Though I will admit that it was very nice and refreshing to be 'home.' Though spring break was amazing, it feels good to have a routine again and have a fixed plan for mostly every day. My internship was fine this past week. I'm having more people come to me with stuff to do, so I appreciate that, but I still haven't figured out my 'project' that I am going to do. Our internship coordinator suggested we try to find something that we can improve in the company to make ... read more

Hey all, so day six was quite different! We decided it would be best to have a bit of a sleep in so we slept till about 830ish - 9am. From there we leisurely got ready and went downstairs for our breakfast. We went over the itinerary and decided what we had left to do and planned how I was getting to Wembley Stadium for the day. Dad was going to hang out around the area and sort of take it easy, while I was leaving for the concert at 12 noon. The gates opened at 4pm but I wanted a good seat! I left for the tube and took the central line East to Bond St Station and from there transfered to the Jubilee Line North to Wembley Park. Upon arriving I wasn't sure ... read more