45,349 beers. Not ‘a few,’ not ‘thousands.’ Exactly forty-five thousand three hundred and forty-nine beers, counted one by one at Texas Live! in Arlington while England beat Croatia 4-2 at the 2026 World Cup. 🍺🤯
The bar is just 550 meters from Estadio AT&T, and Texas’ high temperatures on Wednesday, June 18 did the rest: England and Croatia fans took shelter there before the match and didn’t stop ordering rounds.
On the pitch, Harry Kane scored twice, Bellingham and Rashford added the other two, and that was how England closed out Group L with a win to remember. But outside the stadium, the fans wrote their own record. Can anyone blame them? With that heat and that party, it was inevitable. 🏴⚽