On Monday night, Arsenal scored one of the loveliest goals I’ve ever seen. And I say Arsenal, not Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, because practically the entire side made it: a team of specialists contributing to a sublime whole. I work with specialists. Universities are full of them. Not one of them has a right foot like Aubameyang’s …
So, I went to church yesterday. Obviously I needed some spiritual sustenance since, as both Wimbledon and the World Cup were resting, we found ourselves in the literally horrifying situation of no actual sport happening. Except for the Grand Prix, the cricket, the Tour de France, the rugby league… Oh. Now I am what’s called …
My boys, Silas, Sam and Linus, play a lot of FIFA (other football-related computer games are available) and as a result our house is full of weird stats. We know the pace of Werder Bremen’s 20-year-old Gambian striker, Ousman Manneh. We know that Erhun Oztumer of Walsall has the best balance of just about any …