In praise of the goalless draw
Nobody puts 0–0 on a poster. But the matches I remember most clearly are rarely the ones with goals in them, and I have started to think that is the point rather than a failure of taste.
A personal blog about watching football — mostly the parts that do not make the highlights. Opinion, not reporting.
Nobody puts 0–0 on a poster. But the matches I remember most clearly are rarely the ones with goals in them, and I have started to think that is the point rather than a failure of taste.
Three minutes of a match tells you what happened and almost nothing about why. After a summer of watching too much football on too many screens, I went back to full games and found the sport again.
Four hundred people, a cold stand and a match that mattered enormously to everyone present and to nobody else. Notes from an evening with no cameras at it.