The World Cup has returned and as I write this England are gearing up to play their first game. Croatia will be a test (after the print edition last week, this article is going online after a triumphant England win; next up, on June 23, Ghana). For many, so is finding somewhere to watch it, if not at home. There’s an argument to suggest watching football matches with a group of pals — whomever has the biggest TV, I suppose — with a Kerry Katona buffet (don’t say picky bits) and a bucket of ice full of beer. But then the World Cup is likely to save quite a few pubs and bars this summer and we should enjoy going out and watching football; feeling camaraderie, joy and fear and desperation all together in unison amid the raucous chants and spilled pints, the fever pitch, the unadulterated rapture of “the football”.
Josh Barrie On the Sauce at Kerb: Spitalfields sports bar is as good a place as any to watch England in the World Cup
