Lessons from football
Cavallero, Zanetti, Ayala, Samuel, Sorin, Simeone….this was the point that usually proved to be decisive, there were too many contenders for the front half. This was my magic trick to control my emotions when younger, a magic trick I’ve slowly lost touch with in adult life, I should go back to it more. This - laying out Argentina’s ideal formation - is what came to my rescue in moments of intense feeling when they needed to be hidden. My face would immediately start looking like I was trying to remember a mathematical formula. When I got the urge to burst out laughing at something someone said in school assembly, Argentina came to the rescue. Sometimes it would be so funny I’d have to go right up to Batistuta. Once or twice I’ve had to stretch myself to the substitutes’ bench too. Won't forgive Pochettino ever for conceding that penalty vs England, the biggest team of fakers When my tabla teacher’s voice droned on while I had to sit in attention even when I knew my team’s Wo...