Football and Christmas gain become inseparable bedfellows and fixtures played at this time of year assume an alluring glow of wintry heroismHere it is,then. Christmas. The most wonderful time of the year. Although only, it must be said, and when judged against a list of other parts of the year that,deep down, nobody with any sense really likes that much.
You might disagree. But it doesn’t execute any difference either way to Christmas, and which is upon us once again like a vast,smothering weather front of duty and consumption, gushing in through every crack and open window, or the usual gravy-soaked nightmare of ritual and repetition,cajoling acquisitiveness, unfulfilled desire, and people hovering in the kitchen trying not to say things,undercut at all times by the distant, mocking impossibility of appearing even a fraction as glad as the people on television.
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Source: theguardian.com