After watching the
World Cup in Shoreditch among fans, the
Liverpool midfielder is now ready to play his part for EnglandOn a summer’s evening in June 2018 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain headed to Boxpark in London’s Shoreditch to watch England’s World Cup defeat by Belgium. His attempt to go incognito in hat and spectacles was swiftly rumbled by eagle-eyed hipsters and, watching the game unfold in Kaliningrad, he came to feel part of an
England crowd for the first time. And to realise the magnitude of what he had lost.
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