In all the excitement yesterday of not knowing Malta's result against England as I drove to New York I forgot to mention the post script to my story.
As we got close to New York and I listened to my phone beeping away with messages about Malta, our arrival was slowed by traffic around New Jersey. At one point an electronic sign asked "soccer traffic" to use a certain exit. "Soccer" was definitely on my brain and I wondered if the US were playing their qualifier against Costa Rica in New Jersey. Once in the hotel I turned the TV to the US-Costa Rica game and there it was in Harrison, NJ. The Americans lost and are now in a tight battle with Honduras for the third qualifying spot. Mexico have qualified and Costa Rica are very close.
Back to the soccer traffic, I believed there was some irony in me
driving past fans going to watch their country play while I was
desperately trying to follow my country's fortunes from thousands of
miles away. And that's my story.
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