Tuesday, 13 October 2015

England 2-0 Estonia: The Vernon Adventure

On Friday 9th October 2015, I set off from my house in Rotherham at 10.00am for a train at Rotherham at 10.37am to Doncaster to catch our connection train at Doncaster to London King's Cross at 11.17am.

We arrived at London King's Cross train station at 1pm and we then made our way to the underground tube station and purchased our tickets and then got a tube to Upton Park Tube Station to take a look at West Ham United's Upton Park stadium before the Hammers moved to the Olympic Stadium.

We then left Upton Park and walked to Millers View Pub in East Ham and had some food before we went on another tube straight to Wembley Stadium. We arrived at Wembley Stadium at 5.25pm and walked towards JJ Moons Pub for some pre-match drinks.

On the way to JJ Moons we saw the booth we're talkSPORT were presenting the drive time show from and I saw Ian 'The Moose' Abrahams and Chris 'Kammy' Kamara and got my photo with them. I also was interviewed by The Moose ahead of the game with him asking me for my score prediction, which I said would be England 3-0 Estonia with Harry Kane getting the first goal.

We then left JJ Moons at 7pm and walked back to Wembley Stadium and went into the ground and found our seats and we waited for build-up.

Just before the game got underway Wayne Rooney was presented with a golden boot by Sir Bobby Charlton after the Manchester United man broke the record for the most goals scored by a England International in England's last game. Rooney now has 50 goals for his country.

Onto the game and it looked like it was a training exercise and it took until the final minute of the 1st half for England to open the scoring when Arsenal's Theo Walcott collected a pass from Everton's Ross Barkley and he slotted it past the Estonia goalkeeper on the stroke of half time.

England upped the tempo for me in the second half and deservedly doubled their lead on 85 minutes when Leicester City's Jamie Vardy played the ball across to Manchester City's Raheem Sterling and he doubled the lead from close range.

England made it 9 out of 9 in their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign as they beat Estonia 2-0.

After the game we went back on the Tube to Victoria and went to Victoria Coach Station and waited for a Megabus back to Sheffield. The Megabus left London at 1am and we arrived back in Sheffield at 5.15am and got a taxi back to our house in Rotherham, and got home at 5.40am.

I enjoyed my day out but found the game a bit boring.