The World Cup seems to capture the nations heart like no other tournament can, with fans going to any lengths not to miss a game.

And for crowds of tennis fans making their way back from Wimbledon as England stormed to success against Colombia last night, that meant peering into someone else’s living room.

It was a desperate time as the match entered a tense final few minutes and the Wimbledon crowd turned to desperate measures to catch a glimpse of the action.

Wimbledon fans crowd round house with widescreen TV to watch the world cup on their way home (Picture: Felicity Barker/Twitter)

Luckily, a house nearby was showing the game on a wide screen telly in the living room – and didn’t mind nosy neighbours joining in on the fun.




In pictures of the scene, a crowd of tennis fans are seen clambering to see the television screen through the window of the south west London property.

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It was tweeted by BBC journalist Felicity Baker, who wrote: ‘The perils of having a big screen TV clearly visible in your front room on the walk home from Wimbledon.’

Piers Morgan was among those who retweeted the image, captioning it: ‘Brilliantly British’.

One Twitter user wrote: ‘This is brilliant – fair play to them for leaving the curtains open!’

Another added: ‘Some enterprising person would set out some chairs and start selling beers!’

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There’s so much sport on this summer that fans have been left in a conundrum as to whether to buy tickets for Wimbledon or watch the world cup as Wimbledon organisers said they will not screen any matches on the big screen at Murray Mound.

Elsewhere though, fans up and down the country were able to revel in England’s penalty success.

Crowds of fans roadblocked Shoreditch High Street in east London with an ecstatic rendition of ‘Three Lions’.

As England gained their first win in a knockout stage since 2006, Instagram user @londonnas filmed double decker buses trapped in the throng of supporters dressed in retro shirts and belting out a rendition of Baddiel and Skinner’s anthem.

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Eventually the stuck vehicles gave up and joined in with the singing as they realised they weren’t going anywhere anytime soon.

@Londonnas said: ‘The main crowd were there for an hour and the police eventually had to move them on.

‘It was a real rollercoaster of emotions. When Henderson missed I thought it was all over, but Pickford should be knighted.

‘I’m not saying football is coming home, just that I can see a path to the final.’

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