Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Saturday, 11 June 2016

Shot Luck

Today’s three match TV binge included Wales’ win over Slovakia and England’s draw with Russia and was instructive on how much luck (normally relating to a deflection or a decision) plays a part in football - the relative scarcity of scoring means that in any one game a slice of fortune, good or ill, can be decisive - contributing greatly to its peculiar attraction, producing frustratingly and delightfully unpredictable results; while, for England, Lallana’s and Rooney’s sweetly hit volleys arrowed straight into the goalkeeper’s midriff, Welsh goals came from a scuffed finish from Robson-Kanu and a free kick from Bale that would have also found the keeper’s stomach had he not inexplicably moved out of its way.

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