You'll Never Walk Alone....

     Sorry all for not posting in a while!! It has been a hectic past couple weeks, so I am going to do 2 posts right now. It's too much info for 1 post, don't want to make everyone feel like they're reading a novel. So on Feb. 6th a group of us decided it would be fun to try to go see Chelsea vs Liverpool, two major soccer teams here in England. For those of you who don't follow the English Premier League I have to give you a quick back story. During the month of January they have something called the "transfer window" where they can trade, buy, or loan out players. On the last day of January Liverpool sold their star forward Fernando Torres to Chelsea for the sum of 50million pounds (roughly $79 million) the highest paid English transfer in the history of the league. This game that we went to go see if we could get tickets for was going to be his debut.

      So we all met up near the stadium and started walking towards the stadium thinking it would be nearly impossible to find 6 tickets to this game. To our delightful surprise though there were guys all up and down the street asking if people needed tickets. After talking to a couple of them we found someone who would sell us tickets a reasonable price not too far above face value, especially for this game! 2 of the guys decided the price was too steep for them so they decided not to buy but the other 4 of us bought the tickets and went into the stadium and found our seats! Even though we were on the lower level and underneath the overhang so our view was slightly impeded but the game was incredible!!!! It was unreal that I was so close to many of the superstars that I've watched on countless weekends on TV. Also we sat in the Chelsea Fan section, which stood and sang the ENTIRE game!! Secretly I was rooting for Liverpool because Chelsea was closer in the league standings to the team I support (Manchester United who is 1st).

     The first half ended 0-0 after some close chances by both teams. Luckily for us the action switched ends the 2nd half and was played towards us (our seats were behind the net too, forgot to mention that earlier). Early on in the 2nd half Liverpool scored the opening goal and the away section went absolutely wild! It was quite a sight to see! Sadly though there were no more goals to be had and the game ended 1-0, which for me was good cause it meant Manchester United stayed in first place.

     After the game I went back took a nap and then woke up ate some food, then went to a pub to get ready for the Superbowl. We luckily rented out a pub to watch the Superbowl at since it started at 11:30 London time. Most pubs close at 11:00 but we came to an agreement with the owner to stay open and show the game! Only down side is we got British commercials not the US ones =(. I still have yet to see any of the Superbowl commercials, but we did get to see the halftime show which personally I didn't think it was very good. After the halftime show I went back to my flat to watch the rest of the game. I was getting tired and didn't want to stay in the packed pub when we had it on our TV at our flat, where one of my flatemates was watching it and he's a HUGE Packers fan. I ended up staying up for the whole game and watched it til the end even though I had work the next day! It ended around nearly 3am London time so needless to say I didn't get too much sleep! So that was basically all I did that weekend, look at the next post for the official kick off to my Euro Trip!! Cheers!