Our love/hate relationship with sport

It’s been another rough week for Pat. Or Tom. Or Ger. Whatever you want to call him, you know him well anyway.

Our love/hate relationship with sport
Sat, 16 Mar, 2019 - 05:40
Larry Ryan

It’s been another rough week for Pat. Or Tom. Or Ger. Whatever you want to call him, you know him well anyway.

A great dread came over Pat around half nine on Wednesday evening as an horrific, unthinkable vision loomed large in his mind’s eye: Liverpool completing a Premier League and Champions League double.

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