Entries by Mark

Supporting a Lower League Football Club

When someone asks you what team you support and you reply with: ‘Rotherham United’, they’ll probably look at you with either pity, bewilderment, or disdain. The next thing they say will probably be: ‘yes, but what Premiership team do you support?’  You see, they want to talk about proper football.  I started going to Rotherham […]

A British Cup of Tea

There are many different stereotypes about British people. For Americans, it’s bad teeth and polite understatement. For Europeans, it’s drunken debauchery and bizarre political decisions and, for any country that was unfortunate enough to be part of the British Empire, it’s undoubtedly pompousness and unfathomable cruelty. However, there is one stereotype that’s common wherever you […]