England superfan Andy Milne is selling his house to fund his World Cup trip across the USA this summer.
The previous teacher went viral throughout the 2022 World Cup in Qatar with images of him in an England shirt holding a replicatrophy securing his cult hero status.
The 62-year-old, who bears a resemblance to former Three Lions manager Steve McClaren, plans to attend his 10th World Cup this summer with England’s group games going down in Dallas, Boston and Recent York in June.
Exorbitant ticket prices for the tournament have been widely criticised but Milne, perhaps slightly optimistically, has already secured tickets for each game as much as the ultimate.
To finance the tour, Milne says he has put his second home in Northwich, Cheshire available on the market for £350,000.
‘I definitely wish to see the entire tournament,’ he told The Mirror. ‘I’m going to the US on June 3 and will likely be there for seven weeks. So it should cost quite loads of money.
‘It [his second home] goes available on the market because I’m selling it to go to the World Cup. The last tournament in Qatar was a gift to myself, I had been saving for years.
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‘We’ve got had a second home for 27 years so it felt like the correct time to money in’
He added: ‘I all the time attempt to do things cheaply if I can. I’ll couch surf where possible; I’m lucky to have friends in Mexico, Dallas, and Vancouver.
‘Travel costs are expensive; I purchased international flights early because you possibly can change them even when departure times change by 10 minutes.’
England begin their World Cup campaign against Croatia in Dallas on 17 June before a gathering with Ghana six days later in Boston.
Thomas Tuchel’s side will hope to have qualification for the knockout stages wrapped up before their final group game against Panama in Recent Jersey.
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