Floodlit Pitch

Comfort Zone. Answering “Brentford” to the ice breaker “Where in the world would you most like to go” at a recent work event was given without a 2nd thought. Partly for comic effect but really it was the first thought I had because the London club’s new ground would finish off the 92 for me, again. It could be an obsession, an illness or a defence mechanism, the default answer to a random question, turn it round to something you feel comfortable talking about. Wishaw, a lovely shade of grey & white. Football’s pre-season is back and this Summer break was one of the shortest I can remember. From my season ending with the National League Play Off SF at Solihull Moors on 29th May to this work trip in Glasgow exactly 1 month later, that's not much of a break. It's part of that obsession that makes you search out a game when visiting somewhere new. so when m eeting colleagues face to face that I’d only previously met on video calls they may have been surprised when I excused mys...