He set foot in France, at 7.50pm, this Saturday, December 10, 2022, from London (England), where he went shopping and enjoyed himself with his friends.
As soon as he arrived in Paris, Charlie Bayliss, 58, this English engineer who has lived in Chartres for six years and in France for twenty-five, has settled comfortably in an English pub in the ninth arrondissement of Paris.
World Cup: Eure-et-Loir fans celebrate victory against England
He wanted to follow his national team’s impossible feat with his family.
Lucid, he has covered every England match since the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. He hasn’t really forgotten the England-Argentina quarter-final, where Diego Maradonna stood out with his famous “hand of God”. Argentina then won 2-1.
World Cup: France – England, Crunch to munch on the semifinals
France is hard to beat
But yesterday evening it was a completely different story that awaited the British. And Charlie Bayliss is not naive. “I’m very nervous tonight, there’s a lot of stress. It has to be said that the British are not normally good. I hope we go to penalties, but I’m under no illusions. France is very hard to beat. You have many qualities: experience, but also youth. Above all this team has dominated the international scene for many years ”, he analyzes with his delightful“ so British ” accent.
Moroccan fans celebrate their team’s victory in Eure-et-Loir
Zizou as coach
Now that his nation England has been knocked out of the World Cup, it is obviously France who will be cheering on Morocco. But, when he projects himself even further, and even after the end of this World Cup in Qatar, he would like to see “Zizou emerge as coach of the Blues. He would be attractive,” he said. For the moment Didier Deschamps has a World Cup to finish! But he knows what the future holds.
