Perks of supporting a team that's been knocked out

Since there was time to kill before the Iran-Angola game, Billy and I decided to split up and explore Leipzig on our own. It's good that, a World Cup ticket lets you travel on local transport for free (did I mention that I got hold of FREE World Cup tickets?). Anyway, Billy was wondering whether he should get souvenirs.

When I met up with him an hour later, he was all kitted up with an Iran football jersey, Iran scarf, Iranian flag, Iran pin badge and an Iran backpack.

I thought, heck, he was a little bit serious about getting souvenirs, wasn't he? I wondered how much it all set him back.

"Nothing. For free."

What?

"They give me for free."

It seems that the tree that we had agreed to meet under also happened to be the lets-give-Iranian-stuff-away-before-the-police-come-and-break-it-up tree.

I guess that's one of the perks of supporting a team that exits the World Cup early.

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