POSSIBLY, some of you are not interested in football. Fear not, for I am not – lots of nots here, are there not? – about to discuss the increasingly stupid game itself, in which every other goal is chalked off because of a nasal hair being offside and, rather than booting the ball up the park as they did in the good old days, the defenders and, worse still, the handless keeper “pass it out from the back”, faffing about and almost conceding goals, before – you guessed it – booting the ball up the park.

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