Posts Tagged another lost weekend

A Weekend of Doubting Our Principles

It’s Friday, which means it’s time to look out across the brooding river toward the lights on the far shore, and wonder where the current will take us when we cross through the matches ahead. I’ll be testing the waters at…

A Weekend of Secrets and Signs

It’s Friday, which means it’s time to open the mysterious parcel you found in the mail three weeks after your grandfather’s disappearance, and try to decipher his clues to the weekend of football ahead. I’ll be setting out to find the truth in…

A Weekend of Late Revolutions

It’s Friday (still, barely, in some parts of the world) which means it’s time to gaze out from between the bars of your cell window and plot your escape through the football matches ahead. The chase will be fierce, but the cover will be exquisite. I’m thinking of hiding in…

A Weekend of Slouching Toward Bethlehem

It’s Friday, which means it’s almost time to get out your navigating shoes and set off, with a gleam in your eye, through the noisy city streets of the football matches to come. You don’t know what you’ll see or how the days will change you, but you can at least take a look [...]

Another Lost Weekend

It’s Friday, which is a day of hope in football, just as Saturday is a day of madness and Sunday is a day of hiding under the stairs, in the dark, beneath a dirty blanket, breathing. It’s not a conspicuously exciting weekend of matches coming up, but there are a few we can look [...]

How Are We Going to Make It Through Tomorrow?

We’re going to plan ahead, take it slow, and above all, respect the situation. The Dutch police have made it easier for us by forcing the postponement of the Ajax - PSV match, but we still have three consecutive games that would individually suffice to flutter the needle on a seismograph. You’re going [...]