I love football. It’s an all-encompassing passion that cuts to my very soul. It runs in my blood. Its geographic nature ties it to notions of identity and family and collective consciousness that are the bricks with which I am made. 1/ Football was something I shared with my father, with whom I had a complex and difficult relationship. It was the fulcrum around which a very male-type family were constantly there for each other. It rooted us as we have spread round the globe. 2/