To Wish Impossible Things

Or, "Thinking of those two beautiful games..."

I’ve been thinking a lot about football and golf of late. Not just because the World Cup is somehow upon us, but also I’ve been watching some grassroots games from the touchline; the cycle of life now casting me as the parent where my late father once stood, as the rain batters down. And in what was my place in that other world, tearing up and down the …