Meeting a cousin at Wembley.

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In 1958 I went on a coach from our school in Wolverhampton to watch the schoolboy international football match between England and Scotland. We parked in the coach park at Wembley - as the next coach parked alongside my friends said that someone was waving at me from that coach. I noticed a familiar face in the window, nearly facing me, it was my cousin from Swindon who was also, unknown to me , going to the game. I believe the crowd that day was nearly 90,000, the majority coming from schools all over England by coach. I would guess there could have been nearly 1,000 coaches in that coach park. I would love to know the odds of cousins, almost facing each other, being parked in a coach next to each and coming from Wolverhampton and Swindon.
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:41:08 +0000Coincidence ID:4088