To sport and football and the sense of security it can bring in being too flimsy to provide for a full political main course, there is the sense that even ministerial buffoons will never feel a need to invade the pitch or leap the turnstile for its slim pickings.
Then this week as the UK and Ireland quietly rubbed their thighs in delight as events conspired with them, most of the other competitors fell away and the joint Euro 2028 bid delightfully became an open goal with no net minder.
- March 25, 2022
