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Euro 2020: She declared herself ill to go to the stadium and the boss saw her on TV

One woman said she was ill for not going to work and watching closely the victory of England in the semifinal of Euro 2020. But her boss saw her on TV and now she is out of a job.

Nina Farooqi, 37, found an excuse not to go to work when a friend offered her a ticket to the Wembley match at the last minute.

She considered it unlikely that she would be allowed to go to the stadium from work due to lack of staff, so she decided to declare herself ill and take the train to Wembley.

But the face of Farooqi, who works as a digital content producer, played on television around the world when the camera zoomed in on the 37-year-old and her friend who were celebrating her goal. England.

Her face also appeared on the Instagram story of presenter Stacey Dooley. The next morning she received a phone call from her boss, telling her not to even bother going to work.

“They said they had seen me go to the race and I was honest about why I did it. But I was told that was it. “That was the consequence of what I did,” she told the Daily Telegraph.

“I am very sorry, no one wants to fired, but still I would hate to regret losing it. “I would do it again,” he added.

However, he did not expect to be found in a crowd of more than 60,000 people, he said.

In addition to the office work, which she lost, however, the 37-year-old also works as a freelance in various other projects, according to her LinkedIn page.

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