Watching football is also watching everything else

When Carlo Ancelotti retires he will clearly become a funeral director.

Being a manager is, in a way, a preparation for death, or at least grieving.

Eddie Howe looked like a member of a boy band when he first emerged at Bournemouth.

How do you spell that old Geordie chant? Is it “Howay the lads”, or “Away the lids”? Then I fantasise about their names, such as Tyler Dibling .