Team Dengland

The land of counterfeit goods just gets better. A few days earlier we'd been discussing a ridiculous fake England football shirt which Mark's dad had seen in Azerbaijan featuring 4 Lions on the badge, when we spotted an 'England' t-shirt in a shop over here made (apparently) by Fila. Once we'd stopped laughing at the mistake, obvious to any Englishman (or vexillophile), Meg made the purchase and adopted the shirt as her lucky World Cup shirt.



Without going into too much detail about the disappointing World Cup so far, the recent poor England performances have not been starting until 1:30am local time. And with the local police cruising the streets and closing down any bars flouting the midnight Hanoi curfew, we have not been rewarded for our efforts in staying up to watch.



Mark is now on his fourth pair of conterfeit Ray-Bays and has vowed to buy a real pair in Australia - though possibly not with his newly acquired stash of 'real' $1000 bills.