If you are back in this green and pleasant land whilst the European championships are happening, you could do worse than visiting the old Trent bridge to catch an England game. My friend (not Carl Froch but Carl something) lives in Nottingham and when I visited him I went to the old Trent bridge pub which backs onto the famous cricket ground to watch an England game, great atmosphere. In fact instead of tearing your hair out and gnashing your teeth if it's the off season you can probably catch a friendly football match at whatever team is local to your mum's, or even travel to see the reds at Anfield.