TREAT FANS WITH GREATER RESPECT

ALL GOOD FUN: Fans celebrate at Corinthian Casuals with a showering of beer
PICTURE: David Bauckham

T HIS AFTERNOON, I will be at Wembley Stadium watching an NFL game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and, reigning champions, the Philadelphia Eagles. Who knows… I might even have a beer. Even more radically, I’ll probably drink it sitting in my seat watching the game. As, no doubt, will thousands of other people, who are seemingly happy to pay over the odds for a cold pint of fizzy nectar.
Football in this country has a complicated relationship ...