The Review: The Big Match Revisited

“We all watch an awful lot of football and not all of it is especially riveting. When it’s good, it is exceptional entertainment, but there’s a certain predictability and pattern to everything these days. Most teams do not have any chance of major success and defeats for the elite clubs are like the periodical appearance of a major comet. The game is so heavily marketed and packaged these days that we are frequently told everything is great even when we’ve watched two hours of dross. The...