NICK TIMOTHY

RUE FANS KNOW THAT LIVE SPORT is not to be enjoyed, but endured. If the object of our sporting affection is losing, it is miserable. If they are winning, we fear they will throw it all away. Only after the drama can those at home emerge from behind the sofa, and supporters at the stadium or ground stop biting their nails. Only then can the glory be celebrated or the failure lamented. The errors, the injustices, the what-might-have-beens can be debated, sometimes for weeks, months and even of the early 1930s, and England’s third goal against West Germany in the .