WORLD CUP MEMORIES

Drowning their sorrows: England fans put on a brave face after the semi-final

MIDDAY – I am in the bar, Margarita in hand awaiting English football’s biggest game for 28 years.
Seems early but this is Mexican time in the beautiful beach resort of Playa del Carmen nestled on the Caribbean Sea, so it is 6pm back home in good old Blighty.
There is a small but noisy contingent of English men and women taking over the French-Canadian bar called Los Tabernacos, which has been growing game by game until for this match every table was taken - maybe 60 people in ...