💷 £100 Jagerbomb rounds 🐟 Fish & chips 🗣️ Friendly banter Inside Qatar's only British pub 🍻 MsiDouglas heads to the Red Lion in Doha to find out why fans are willing to queue two hours for an expensive taste of home⤵️
I introduce myself to bar manager Steve Morgan as a member of the media. He’s done plenty of interviews, welcomed lots of English photographers and says he’s happy for me to be there, with two rules. “If you’re negative about the bar or the World Cup, you’re permanently barred,” he says. I think he’s joking, but I can’t quite be sure.
Fans of Mexico, the US, Iran, Senegal, Brazil and Canada mingle under the low ceiling, swaying to a live band that bangs out a stream of wedding classics. They do a roaring trade in t-shirts in World Cup colours and glasses moulded to look like the trophy itself. It’s all great fun until the football starts.
At the bar, four fans with tickets for the game ordered one for the road. Or – to be precise – 12 jagerbombs at the jaw-dropping cost of £100. There wasn’t the merest sniff of trouble but they had to soak up a fair bit of mockery from those on their way to the Al Bayt Stadium. They started the night downcast at Wales’ desperate defeat to Iran but perked up as England toiled in the late Doha heat. By the end we’d agreed to reconvene in Germany in 18 months for the Euros. It was that sort of night.
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