Do you feel it on Saturdays? That lack of something.
My wife picks up on it. What's the matter with you? she asks. Have Leeds lost again?
No, I tell her. It's worse: they're not even playing.
But don't despair. There IS football. It's the Women's World Cup from 26 June. And England are in it to win it.
http://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/matches/index.html
If you want to know more about the women's game, you are better listening to Helena Pielichaty than me. I hope she will be blogging about it here. She writes the Girls FC series and it is very good. Her daughter
used to play for West Brom.
I love football, so I will love watching England's women. But I still have my eye on 17 June, when the Leeds fixtures are out and on 31 July, when I am taking my daughter to Leeds v Newcastle, the pre-season game.
Curiously it was on Parker's Piece, the big park in the middle of Cambridge, that the rules of football were first posted up in standard form. Everyone had come up to the university with their own local variants so this would allow people to play each other in the park. Very ironic if the photo's from there...
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