t’s the middle of summer, which means a new football season. The glory game hardly sleeps these days: the Women’s World Cup has only just concluded and there is the constant spectre of the Saudi power grab on men’s elite football. As a fan, I’ll still embrace this hypothetical moment of renewal. The big kick-off for me, however, will come in early September, with the return of the Thursday night football game that, for the past 25 years, I’ve played in
