“In a Football Match, Everything is Complicated by the Presence of the Opposite Team”

Portrait of a Married Couple, by Gabriel Zehender, 1525

I have become a football fan.

It wasn’t always like this and I wasn’t always so. In fact, for many years I had absolutely no interest in this game, and all the furore and frenzy built around it, finding it a bit…. intense. Too aggressive. Too divisive. Just too much. Like many others, I could not pos…