My friend Mark - seen in the photograph on the left - and I went to Esters Pub in Denver's Virginia Village neighborhood to watch the Tottenham Hotspurs play Manchester United with the Colorado Spurs Supporters Club. We arrived before the game started, but every table in the place was taken, and we were about to leave when a young couple invited us to join them at their table, which was a really nice thing to do. Before moving to Denver, they lived in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago, in addition to Lincoln Park and Lakeview, and so we had a lot to talk about.
The Tottenham fans were very enthusiastic, and the guys sitting at the bar would occasionally start singing "When the Spurs go Marching in," to the tune of "When the Saints go Marching in." Several times they went into a chant that featured "Yeats." None of them looked like devotees of late 19th and early 20th Century Irish poetry, but you never know. We also heard that chant the last time we were at Esters, but I haven't the vaguest idea what it is all about. Tottenham has been struggling lately and are currently in 12th place in the English Premier League, but they wound up beating Manchester United 1-0. Since Manchester United is in 15th place, the win was not surprising, but it definitely made the fans at Esters happy. A very fun morning.
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