Despising all this national hysteria, with every media outlet and channel spouting gibberish about, and undying love for, football. Even Radio 4 FFS.
Bring back the old days, I say, when Thatcher told the world that football fans were the scum of the earth. In 1980, I first worked in a London ad agency. Forest were champions of Europe but of my 60-odd colleagues, only two were football fans. Me and a Dutch feller who supported Ajax. Everybody else followed rugby (or rugger), cricket and tennis. This annoyed me at the time. But I actually dislike the “we’re all footy fans here” bollocks even more. This is my game, not yours. Fuck off.