Another tale of watching England away from home today, which will hopefully offer some inspiration to anyone wanting to enter our England Away competition. You’ve only got until the end of this week to enter, so get your stories submitted for a chance to win our terrific England bundle. Today’s story comes courtesy of The Football Ramble‘s Marcus Speller, telling a tale of trying to find a football match to watch whilst in Peru….

“I was on my travels in deepest darkest Peru with an Arsenal-supporting friend of mine. We’d heard that the Gunners were playing Newcastle the next morning (Peruvian time) so we thought we’d get some much needed Premier League action. The next day we headed towards the main square to find a bar showing the game. En route we were distracted by persuasive locals trying to sell us alpaca goods (jumpers, finger puppets) and children wanting to kick a ball around with us.

After we bought a few woolly numbers and showed the local kids how to play a long ball to no-one we reached the square and its array of bars. We approached a number of likeable chaps standing outside said bars trying to tempt anyone in with “buy one get one free deals for Cuba Libres”, and every time we put our inquiry to them they would start a conversation about the Premier League telling us about their favourite team and players.

One bloke actually said his favourite player was Peter Crouch, which really amused my friend and I more than it should’ve. Anyway, after all the fuss someone pointed us in the direction of a bar, which was an Irish bar, of course. We ate shepherds pie and drank Fanta whilst watching the game and coincidentally the only goal was scored by a Peruvian – Nolberto Solano. My mate didn’t find any consolation in that, though.”

Thanks to Marcus for telling his tale – if you think you’ve got a better story about watching Englandaway from home, you could be in with a chance of winning a great bundle of prizes. Click here to find out how to enter our competition.