We woke up early and excited. We’d spent the evening eating our Chinese takeaway and watching highlights of that famous match in Istanbul. Today is the 20th anniversary of that match. It was in the days before camera phones and facebook so we have no photos of ourselves there. This’ll have to do.
For breakfast we recreated the infamous “Breakfast of Champions “ first eaten in Madrid in 2019. There it was churros and chocolate sauce and champagne. Here we’ve had to make do with chocolate croissants and champagne instead.
Late morning we went to The Sandon.
The music was disappointing – didn’t strike the right note for me at all and didn’t get the crowd involved. The weather was variously cloudy and sunny but with a fairly constant breeze so I found myself quite cold. All in all it fell a bit below my expectations. Luckily Anna and I went to the match but things didn’t get better for those who stayed at the pub as the big screens didn’t work properly.
The match itself wasn’t much to write home about but of course we were Champions whatever the result. And at the end we at last got our hands on the trophy.
There was much merriment inside Anfield and a good time was had by all.
Afterwards we all gathered together for a couple of drinks and then went our separate ways. The older ones of us returned to finish off last night’s takeaway and the younger ones went back out into the city centre.
Tonight is our last night. Tomorrow we are planning on watching the victory parade and then heading straight home.
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