00:00There's over 300. Are you doing them this year?
00:02Like, where are the flags when they're going up?
00:04And they're coming, they're coming.
00:05For us, it's all about community on here.
00:07It's all about supporting our football team,
00:09whether it be the boys or girls,
00:10wherever country you're from,
00:11we want you to open your door.
00:12We want you to come and talk to us.
00:14And that's what happens.
00:15Like, people will come and get involved.
00:16It gets everyone talking, it brings everyone together.
00:18And hopefully, later on into the competition,
00:20we'll get the big screen out and everyone come out
00:22and enjoy it together as a mistake.
00:23The front doors will be open and if we score,
00:25you'll hear people cheer, you'll hear people cheer
00:27and come out and say, come on,
00:28and they'll go back indoors and watch it again.
00:29This estate is hanging on to the 80s kind of feel,
00:32where it's a community vibe.
00:34Our front doors are opposite each other,
00:36so we have to talk to our neighbours.
00:38It's a council estate, we have our moments, don't get me wrong.
00:40But we would love to see everyone do this
00:42because there's nothing stopping you doing this.
00:44It's the tourists that come round.
00:46They're the ones that have never seen it.
00:47They're the reactions we love
00:48because when they walk into the estate from down there,
00:51they're like, oh, and it's only when they turn this corner
00:52to where we are now, they go, whoa,
00:54and they get taken back by it.
00:56And that's the reactions we like to see.
00:57So maybe 12 years, 13 years ago.
01:00And this chap here, he put a big screen.
01:03I think he's a DJ.
01:05And he put his last speakers and everything.
01:08So it was a carnival.
01:10So it was nice.
01:11And it's just stayed like that ever since.
01:13Do you know what?
01:13Over the years,
01:14it used to take us about five or six days.
01:16Because we put them away so meticulously last year,
01:19it only took us three days this time.
01:20We're not finished.
01:21We do the bulk of it in three days.
01:24And then we just sit around and we think,
01:25what can we do next?
01:26Where can we go next?
01:27What have we got left?
01:27What can we utilize?
01:28So we're always looking to do more.
01:30Cost of the flags over the years
01:31have gone right through the roof
01:33where we used to put up 33p a flag.
01:36When we bought them in bulk,
01:37we bought up 300.
01:38We got them to 33p each.
01:39Now you can't get them for less than two quid.
01:41And what we've always said,
01:42if your team's in the competition,
01:44take our flag down and put your flag up.
01:45It wasn't just red and white.
01:47It was all over from the country,
01:49from the world.
01:50We had Brazilian flag,
01:51Turkish flag.
01:52We had all sorts of flags,
01:53not just English flags.
01:54We got French, we got Colombian,
01:55we got Scottish and waiting on a Brazil flag.
01:57We got flags down there.
01:58They've got every country that are taking part
02:00because we want everyone to be included.
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