While engaged in my usual morning ritual of listening to the Today Programme on Radio 4 yesterday morning, the sports news came on. It struck me that there can't be anyone, except perhaps Hay, who knows less about football than me.
I have absolutely no idea what the Premier League is, except that it's probably comprised of a number of teams with very expensive tastes when it comes to footballers.
The last time I had any interest in football there were four divisions, with teams going up or down these divisions at the boundaries, depending on how well they performed, and Liverpool won practically every cup going.
On Saturday evenings there was a reading of the score of every football match from every match, which was an institutionalised ritual before the national news and an episode of Dr Who.
Now I'm the kind of person who, on returning from the newsagent's on Sunday morning with the newspaper, first pulls out the sports pages, along with the advertising flyers, and immediately puts them in the recycling without casting a glance at what they say.
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Think of it rather like supermarkets battling it out in the marketplace. Whoever has the most capital can build the most stores and win a larger proportion of the trade.
Some are better at spotting a niche opportunity, and occasionally a newcomer arrives with slightly different tactics.
Watching the supermarket battle is marginally more interesting than watching football.
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