The U.S. women’s soccer team is staying at the Residence Lyon Métropole hotel ahead of their World Cup semifinal on Tuesday against England. Should they win, they will move to the Fourvière Hotel to prepare for Sunday’s final, which also is in Lyon, and a few members of the team’s administrative staff visited the hotel on Sunday to check it out.
There was just one minor problem with that: England’s team currently is lodging at the Fourvière.
In the long run, it probably isn’t the biggest deal, but the fact that the Americans checked out the hotel while England was still staying there clearly irked Coach Phil Neville, who seemed to regard it as a breach of protocol at the least and a sign of the Americans’ arrogance at worst.