World of Wilson

I have to say that I don't want to downplay this serious pandemic by any means, the coronavirus is killing thousands and destroying livelihoods. I never expected this to get so out of hand to the point that it would effect our lives, it has meant that all my uni work has moved online and I am staying inside. One of the ways in which this pandemic has affected me is that it has meant that all European football has been suspended. As much as football can bring out the worst in people, it also brings people together, it is more than life and death as Bill Shankly once stated. I love to go to Hearts matches when I can with my friend and it's not just the match. It's the pints before and after the match and talking about football in the pub and watching the Champions League fixtures during week. No matter what time you support, I hope that you can agree with me on this. So, anyway, I'd like to tell you about the time back in 2018 in which I went to Der Klassiker. The bi...

Getting robbed, being held at gunpoint by the police and infuriating bureaucracy. From these things that happened to me during my time in Rio de Janeiro, you would expect me never to go back to the country, but these experiences were just a tiny proportion of what happened during my two months there. Two things I really like to do are to watch football and go to the beach and to say the least, there is a lot of both in Brazil.  During my time in Rio, I learned a lot, I watched Flamengo matches with Flamenguistas, I learned how to surf, I learned how to dance like a Brazilian and so much about Brazilian culture. On my first day after my dad went home, I woke up and left my guesthouse to walk the streets of Ipanema, I was terrified thinking that any random person on the street could pull a gun on me, thousands of miles away from home in a country whose language I had only just learned, I was thinking why the hell did I decide to go to Rio de Janeiro? 5. Brazilian People are ...