Brentford vs Manchester United: A Timeline of Hope, Hubris and the Slow Death of Geography By Our Man in the Departure Lounge Wednesday, 7:42 p.m. GMT. A Boeing 777 banks over Hounslow, passengers half-watch an in-flight map that still shows the Soviet Union, and somewhere below, Brentford’s new stadium flickers like a pop-up ad for…
Burnley F.C. vs Liverpool F.C.: A Timeline for the End of Days Turin, Tuesday. While G-7 finance ministers argue over whose printer still has ink, the real summit of civilisation is quietly unfolding on a rectangle of grass in Lancashire. The Burnley–Liverpool fixture may look provincial to anyone who thinks football is merely twenty-two millionaires…
Oxford United vs. Leicester City: A Timeline of Hope, Hubris, and the Endless Replay Button By Dave’s Locker International Desk In the grand, gilded amphitheater of global finance, where sovereign wealth funds play three-dimensional Monopoly with actual countries, the Oxford United versus Leicester City timeline is a quaint footnote. Yet to the planet’s 3.5 billion…
