Tooting resident finds a beer for every World Cup country!
Tooting Resident Alex has once again taken on the challenge of finding a beer for every country in the World Cup, that he’ll drink when the country gets eliminated - leaving the winners’ beer to round everything off!
With the tournament expanded to 48 teams for the first time, this has been a real undertaking ahead of the tournament kicking off tonight, when co-hosts Mexico take on South Africa. Seen outside Tooting Bec Tube Station with his England and Croatia beers to symbolise England’s first game, Alex is World Cup ready.
He tells us, “This is definitely my toughest tournament challenge to date - it makes the 16 team Women’s Euros in 2025, the 24 team Men’s Euros in 2024 and the 32 team Men’s World Cup in 2022 look easy! But we’re lucky in Tooting as there are two great Craft Beer spots (Craft Tooting and We Brought Beer) that I can always use to get things moving – and then once the World Cup starts, we’re awash with awesome pubs and both markets to watch the games.
“The number of favours I’ve had to call in for this World Cup though is incredible - from my Aunt & Uncle bringing me beers over from Sydney, to a friend’s mum on holiday in Curacao, to me paying for a mate’s check-in luggage to bring me back a Paraguayan beer - it’s certainly been a journey and I can’t thank everyone enough for their help.
“Let’s hope it’s more a repeat of Women’s Euro 2025 when I got to drink my England beer last, than the last two Men’s Euros when we lost in the final!”
Alex will be documenting his world cup journey on his Instagram page alongside polls for every single game that you can get involved with.
Good luck to England and good luck to Alex navigating the chaos that comes of teams getting knocked out of the World Cup!