Football

Touched on in the end of this: https://thisisnotfootball.co.uk/2024/01/06/listen-like-thieves/

"Elsewhere, is there a more deflating phrase than: ‘Have you heard
what Joey Barton’s said now?’

Seriously, I’d rather hear about that really weird dream you had last
night or what you cook in your fucking air fryer than his latest
thicker-than-the-Saltburn-bathwater contrivance. In the glorious days
before the internet, these bores were just avoided in alehouses.

‘Oh hello Joe, lad. Didn’t know you come in here. Sorry, no, just
finishing this pint and got to get going. Up early in the morning,
son.’

Now it’s a fucking career."