The term 'hero' is bandied about far too often for reasons that aren't really justifiable. But when a Carling-branded lorry caught fire just before England were about to start playing Germany in Euro 2020, a fellow lorry driver grabbed his cape and worked at getting the match on:
Lucky for this unknown driver, he had a TV in his cab so technically could have sat smugly while fellow motorists tried (and quite possibly failed) to get it on the radio.
Not being 'that guy', instead he set the TV up in the footwell, just underneath the steering wheel making it the perfect height for people to stand on the ground and watch on as England were victorious - taking us to the quarter finals of the competition.
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What a lad.
Thankfully, the person driving the Carling-branded lorry was unhurt from the incident.
It did however mean that the M62 was closed westbound from J22 for Denshaw to J21 for Milnrow while emergency services dealt with the fire.
The jams left football fans fearing that they were going to miss the match with one tweeting: "Not today, please no!
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"I need to be back and in front of the tele for 5pm. Stuck in queues, not moving, on the #M62. Come on, show some mercy!"
The lorry driver that set the TV up wasn't the only one either because another tweet from Rich Williams - a Virgin Radio presenter - tweeted to say he watched the match in the back of a stranger's van.
Even Highways England knew how important it was to get things moving again and tweeted a statement at 3:30pm saying: "The incident over in the #Rochdale area is going to take a considerable amount of time to resolve due to the complexity of the incident.
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"We are working as hard as we can on the Yorkshire side of the hills to release trapped traffic and get people home for the football."
Featured Image Credit: Barrie Bazza Pulford
