ARE you not having fun? How can you not be? This isn’t the current state of mind. I’m on a train from Madrid to Barcelona the morning after watching Liverpool win their sixth European cup. The trophy is intoxicating in its sheer presence. It engulfs you, it is a...
MADRID Airport. Sunday, June 2. I mean, I was up at 6.45am, not a mark on me. No hangover, no nothing. Mine was an unusual Champions League final day. Friday night, you see, got a smidgen out of hand. European Cup nerves and that, the ale flew, bevied twice in a day....
COME and adore them. They’re the kings of Europe. To adore, to love. To love is an action, it is active. It isn’t a passive thing. In the book The Reasons For Love by Harry Frankfurt he explores why we love, what love actually is. He determines in short...
ANOTHER year, another Champions League final. This time around, Europe hasn’t always been at the forefront of our minds, such was the intensity and longevity of our involvement in the title race. That’s a nice problem to have. But on Tuesday May 7, Barcelona came to...
WHAT is momentum? Well, I know what it means in definitive terms. “The quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity.” Yet in its social format its scope is much broader. Momentum can be a call to arms, the start of an ethical...
“OVER and over and over and over, “Like a monkey with a miniature cymbal…” That song by Hot Chip. Can’t get it out of my head. My head is cluttered, my swede is cabbaged. Buzzing, full of noise, full of songs. I’ll be in Madrid. Not sure where yet. You may find...
IT’S day two on the bus. Or is it day three? It starts to get hard to tell, to be honest. There is time and there is the bus. Suns rise and suns fall and the bus keeps on going. Between 1am and 11pm on Wednesday we were on a bus moving towards Madrid, save for a...
MAY is anniversary month. Last week saw the celebration of ‘Istanbul Day’ and Reds of a certain age took to social media to share clips of the Gerrard goal and Dudek’s save. A day later Arsenal fans celebrated “Michael Thomas” day while, on the same day, United...
TRANSFORMATION: A marked change in form, nature, or appearance. It’s incredible to think I sat here around 12 months ago wondering how to write an article befitting a Champions League final. A once in a lifetime experience I had already experienced twice before. Yet...
THE time draws near. The scent of Madrid waves Reds fans in like a cartoon hand. The faint whispers of the familiar anthem get slowly louder, and the light – presumably being provided by Gazprom – begins to glow and shine like a beacon on the biggest game in club...
