Steve HILL
HILLY’S AWAY DAYS

If you’re reading this on Sunday morning, I don’t know how you can concentrate.
Knees trembling, pacing up and down, mere hours away from The Greatest Show On Earth™. It all kicks off at 4pm with… Qatar versus Ecuador! Be still my beating heart.
Optimistically, you might get 20 World Cups in your life. You should relish each of them, the sights, sounds and emotions seared into your mind every four years. Or more accurately, every four summers, a blissful sun-kissed respite from the tedium of the closed season. A wall of sport: beers, barbecues, Croydon Boxpark ...