Imagine how stunned copy editors and everyone else back home in England would have been if they understood that it was no mistake, that England really lost a soccer match to the Yankees, of all people.
It’s been more than six decades after the event but the 1950 loss is still much alive and well in soccer folk lore. And I can hear people talking about the Icelandic victory 60 years from now, talking abut it as though it happened yesterday.
This is why they say “England will never live it down”.
They will try to live with it, I suppose, i.e. try to cope and bear with it the best they can but they’ll never be able to live it fully down.
In other words, people will never forget it. And the players will never cease to feel embarrassed by it.
All right, here are other examples of people living something down, usually something shameful or embarrassing and most usually failing to do so:
1. Keke Palmer, who is best known for her work in Akeelah and the Bee, Joyful Noise and the critically acclaimed TV movie Abducted: The Carlina White Story, is now back in a big way on the small screen. She stars as Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas in the VH1 television movie, Crazy Sexy Cool: The TLC Story, which airs October 21. From preparing for that role to her friendship with Bobbi Kristina Brown to navigating Hollywood, Palmer spoke candidly to BET.com about her journey in show business.
You bear a strong resemblance to Chilli, but you almost didn’t get the role in the TLC TV movie. Can you tell us about that?
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