AfternoonTea & English

Еще не устали от новостей о футболе? ⚽️ Эта статья показалась мне очень любопытной, не могла обойти стороной - англичанин размышляет о своей поездке в Россию во время ФИФА, о стереотипах и прочем интересном. Посмотрите.

Message to the English: come to Russia and feel the love

😍 Having been lucky enough to be at Nizhny Novgorod, St Petersburg and Kaliningrad, my personal experience is that Russia is absolutely killing this World Cup. The organisation of this tournament has been fantastic. 📰 However, newspaper headlines put a lot of English people off having an experience like mine. It’s so trite to say the people have been amazing but the response of the Russian populace to England fans has been the polar opposite of what we were warned against. 🎉 And if this all sounds too magical to be true, that’s how it felt. My first Airbnb host said how happy he was to meet an Englishman, as his favourite author was Stephen Fry and described how he’d very much enjoyed the BBC adaptation of War and Peace. I tried to return the compliment but I am so poorly read I said it was great when Andrei Arshavin scored four goals for Arsenal.

❤️ The experience of being a football fan in Russia, not just for me but for the Senegalese, Nigerians, Panamanians, was so surprising and thrilling as to be soul-enriching.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/03/world-cup-russia-england-fans

NEW WORDS:

⚽️ to kill: здесь - неформальный сленг "отлично что-то сделать/поразить".

⚽️ to put off: здесь - отпугнуть

⚽️ trite: банальный, избитый

⚽️ populace: население

⚽️ poorly read: мало читающий

⚽️ to warn against: предостеречь

⚽️ soul-enriching: обогощающий душу

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