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.

Sunday, 4 September 2016

Big Sam, Small Change

And so it starts again, another England world cup campaign, the fourteenth I have invested emotional capital in, and which, from the 1966 success, have steadily declined from expectation, confidence, pride and hopefulness to hopelessness and couldn’t care less; with Big Sam Allardyce now in charge there was little sign of change with Rooney still sitting deep and doing nothing useful, Kane still isolated up front, Hart still miskicking, and Sterling still running into blind alleys, so that it was only when Dele Alli came on (and Slovak captain Skirtl was sent off) that things looked better and a last gasp goal won the day.

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