The Great Wembley Paper Plane Incident

[Pooky 3,783]

http://youtu.be/PuwBpz6PETU

The cheer that goes up from the fans around the camera is louder than when England scored!

[Krikit 1,164]

My cousin was there and tries to claim it was him.

[Pooky 3,783]

I love the player's reaction.

It's a visual. "#######? Seriously?"

And they say that the British aero industry is dead.

[PBJ 60]

I most definitely was there, and I can tell you that from very early on in the match fans had taken to fashioning planes from some shoddy marketing collateral left on each seat by Vauxhall. These pieces of corrugated cardboard were intended for a pre-match tifo (fan mosaic), but I was too busy occupying the bar before kickoff to see if this even happened. And thus a new game had commenced to see if the folded flying objects could reach the pitch from any seat. Such is the excitement of an England friendly (i've been to many), matched only by the sheer industriousness of jaded fans.

I missed both second half goals due to being preoccupied watching the thousands of planes disappearing over the edge of the stadium bowl only to fail in its mission to reach the green. It was very tense. Everyone was having a go. So when one did finally go the distance, gracefully floating through the air carried by increasingly excitable chants of expectation ("oooooooooooOOOOOOOOH"), it was just so much more incredible to see that special paper plane complete its unlikely and remarkable journey butted into the side of a players' head. An opposition player, too. And yes, the screams of joy from 70,000+ people at this sight was more than for any of England's 3 goals. And yes, it was very, very funny.

"England til I fly, I'm England til I fly".

[Hotter Otter 1,211]

It was pretty funny to be fair, let's hope it's the football that's more entertaining during the WC!

[Novembro 1,763]

It was pretty funny to be fair, let's hope it's the football that's more entertaining during the WC!

No vuvuzela no care.