Liverpool v Real Madrid: Dad goes viral after taking son out of school for CL final

A Liverpool pub landlord who travelled to Paris with his son for Saturday night’s Champions League final with Real Madrid has gone viral for the bold manner in which he informed the lad’s school that the pupil would not be attending some lessons this week.

Tage Herstad, landlord of popular Merseyside venue Taggy’s Bar, left for the French capital on Thursday along with his son William and a group of pals.

Their decision to make a weekend of it in Paris inevitably meant that William would have to miss at least two days of school to make the trip – not that his dad was in the slightest bothered when asked to explain why his son hadn’t turned up for registration on Thursday morning.

Asked by the school to reply to a text message with the reason for his son’s absence, William’s father held nothing back.

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