There was a massive bar fight at the end of the game, with a Chinese man hating on foreigners for some random reason - totally unrelated to the football lol, but it softened the blow with a sufficient distraction that had the police come round.
I'm also please I don't need to do that again because it's already wrecked my sleeping pattern, urgh.
re connecting people
Hah, you mean like the Argentinians setting fire to our flag, spitting and stamping on them, and having threatening signs about killing us? Lovely people eh! Then again if anyone has a fun drama reason to do that it's them.
My English husband isn't too sad
Yeah I mean it was a fun journey and we'd only get disappointed against Spain a few days later so it's no biggy. I'm just annoyed because they failed for the same reason they always fail. Everyone thought it was the previous manager's weak, boring and defensive style, Tuchel being more aggressive and such. But the exact same thing happens even under him, so it's just an inherent failure built into the team for some reason they can't shake.
Basically, score one goal, then defend for the rest of the game until the opponent scores.
If they just lost fair and square in a solid battle of two greats, I'd be super satisfied.
Also pretty annoyed that there's an entire 1:15 video compilation of every foul Argentina committed, some of them clearly red card offences, and had nothing happen to them. One was 5 seconds before they scored a goal.
But then we knew that was going to happen going in...
I don't know about all of that drama. Sigh. England lost, Argentina played well, I'm sure they were dicks as well, and yes, many countries have good historical reason to hate the English, but it's probably time they moved on.