World Cup

Whether it's coming home or not, as a diverse gathering of people least likely to be seen as English celebrate wildly with each other, this is a World Cup of a perceptible shift in the meaning and tone of Englishness
'I fell asleep on the N68 night bus and when I woke up the bus was in a big car wash... my first thought was that a monster had eaten the bus.'
For the first time in well over a decade, I can have a conversation with my father about something which surpasses the usual limit of two sentences
'The beautiful game really can help your mind and body.'