This is so great. Also mentions Huysmans in the introduction, after I read Against Nature before this without knowing any connection.
Switzerland without Shaqiri feels pointless.
Went out to buy a sandwich and did a little walk and I'm absolutely soaked. At last we've reached the wonderful uncomfortably hot part of the summer, not sarcasm.
Two weeks' time Emma Hayes writes a garbled word on the blackboard. She begins croaking 'seitlanep! seitlanep!'. Lightning flashes and a nation of England fans sees the word 'penalties' in the mirror.
Why are ITV using a blackboard for these sections? It's unbelievably tinpot and at the same time, staged.
'it's not rocket science if you've got grass and hit a ball into it... ... you can get runners into that grass' - lee dixon
Olivier Giroud waiting by the phone.
Pickford loves a theatrical leap when it's obvious the ball not going near him.
Would be happy if I never saw the words "jib in" printed again.
