🚨🇬🇧 NEW: The Foreign Office has revealed some of the most unusual requests for consular assistance made by British citizens abroad
🇮🇹 A caller in Italy asked where they could watch the Scotland v Haiti group game in Milan
🇯🇴 A tourist in Jordan asked whether the embassy knew where they could get blonde highlights
🇫🇷 In Paris, one caller asked how much duck pâté they could bring back to the UK, while another wanted the embassy’s help finding where they had parked their car near the Eiffel Tower
🇬🇪 A British citizen in Georgia asked whether their two pets could be granted British citizenship to guarantee them diplomatic protection
🇪🇬 A holidaymaker in Egypt asked the embassy to intervene over the temperature of the showers at their hotel
🇳🇬 A tourist in Nigeria asked the embassy to help secure a refund for an unsatisfactory meal at a restaurant in Abuja
🇬🇧 Another Brit contacted the FCDO’s consular service to ask how they could get in touch with their postman while they were away on holiday
Give it 20 years and this will be one of those football quiz questions that sounds completely made up.
“During the 2026 World Cup, who got booked, broke their arm and played 0 minutes in the same match?”
Jordan Henderson.
Legacy.
Henderson is an English hero
- Doesn’t play
- Gets booked
- Stretchered off with oxygen after over celebrating
Just announce him in the Kings Honours now