Struggle at theatre of screams has me back in the fold

The sensation was strange at first. Unfamiliar.

Actually, not so much the sensation but the trigger for it. Sitting on the couch on Tuesday night, watching Manchester City pummel their neighbours and dump David Moyes’s credit levels further into the red, it finally hit home. A cocktail of disappointment, dread and embarrassment. Shame, even.

This was wholly unexpected.