If you’ve ever had a beer with someone who doesn’t like sport, or even worse a fan of rugby union, you will be all too aware of how difficult it can be to articulate your love of football and what it means to you.
‘But it’s just 22 men kicking a bag of air around a field for 90 minutes’, they’ll inevitably quip in a tone that suggests they’ve just discovered the true meaning of life.
‘The trouble with football is that all the players are overpaid and they go down like they’ve been shot and they have no respect for the referee’, the rugby fan will smugly interject as he puts down his pint of Tetleys.