Rebecca Lowe can still picture every single face in the crowd. All four of them. The English broadcaster, now the face of NBC’s Premier League coverage in America, was on her gap year. She had hopped across the pond to study in Pennsylvania.
It was May 1999 and the Champions League final between Manchester United and Bayern Munich was around the corner. ‘How am I going to watch this?’ Lowe, now 42, thought.
There were no televisions in the dorms of her boarding school. Not much buzz either. ‘No one seems to care,’ she realized.