I was backpacking in rome years ago, and fell in with some knockabout fellow aussies staying at the same cheap hotel by the station
we spent a sunny day drinking beers, and playing kick to kick ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ONhoWu-ATU for those who don't know what I'm talking about)on the streets of Rome with one bloke who was dragging a footy around the world with him. By the afternoon we were at St Peters in the Vatican. We entered the vast church and I knew what was coming. The guy with footy, I've forgotten his name but he barracked for North, let's call him Dave, peeled off a good 20m, pulled out the sherrin, and fired in a drop punt back at us. I marked it (caught it), but before I could send it back to him a guy in what looked like a clown suit grabbed me. About a 100 eyes were on us, tourist, nuns, the lot. Dave wandered up and started arguing with the guard to give them his footy back. More guards arrived, but these ones had machine guns. These more paranoid days they would probably have prosecuted us, but instead they argued amongst themselves in Italian before marching us to the front door and pointing at us to fuck off. They gave us the footy back
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