Preface
I suppose for many it was just another unremarkable mid-May Wednesday; certainly I don’t recall the weather making any effort to surprise. What might have made the day slightly memorable for some, perhaps, was that Manchester United was playing Chelsea in the final of the ultra-prestigious soccer European Champions League. A couple of days earlier I’d returned from a few weeks’ sampling of random pubs and music clubs in North America, starting in Los Angeles (actually, starting in Dublin, Ireland, but I’ll not complicate the story) and ending in Vancouver. Now I sat in front of my TV, hoping, somewhat optimistically, for a 3–0 destruction of United, to round off the perfect holiday.
And that’s when the phone rang.
Mike Stephens, associate ...
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