Wednesday, 27 January 2021

Serving Pennants

 There is one piece of memorabilia, above any other, that signifies football friendship at all levels and invokes memories of anything from chip shops to European finals.

Click here for the When Saturday Comes website version - the version that doesn't mention the chip shop pennant - of the piece which appeared in magazine issue 351 (May 2016).


"You can have standoffishness in the tunnel and brutality over the 90 minutes, but refusing your opponent’s pennant is anathema"



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