Papa, #inquisitive, #linguist, #modernist, #bohemian #family, #film. If you put good out, you get good back. If you put bad out, well, you know what's coming ๐
Something Iโve noticed about myself this season: Iโm constantly on my phone while Liverpool are playing. Not the occasional glance either, proper second screen behaviour. Match on the tv, phone in hand, scrolling while the game carries on in the background. And every week I end up asking myself the same question: whatโs going on here?
Have I suddenly developed ADHD? Has years of short form content and endless scrolling completely destroyed my attention span, or more worryingly, am I starting to fall out of love with football?
Because it definitely didnโt used to be like this. I could sit through a dull 0โ0 years ago and still be completely locked in. Every phase of play felt like it mattered, every attack carried a bit of tension, and even when nothing was happening it still felt like something might happen.
Now I sit down with every intention of properly watching the match. Phone down next to me. Five minutes later Iโm somehow halfway through a video about someone restoring a lawnmower from the 1980s. I look back up and realise Iโve missed several minutes of football, yet the game seems to be exactly where it was before.
Centre back to full back. Back inside. Across the back line. Back to the goalkeeper. Switch sides. Reset. By the time we finally reach the edge of the box my attention has already drifted somewhere else.
And thatโs when the other thought creeps in. Maybe itโs not my brain. Maybe itโs not TikTok or shrinking attention spans. Maybe I still love football exactly the same as I always have.
Maybe Liverpool are just a bit boring to watch this season.
Everything feels very controlled, very safe, very calculated. Lots of possession, lots of recycling the ball, lots of patient build up but not always much urgency or unpredictability. It can feel like weโre carefully managing a game rather than actually grabbing hold of it.
It's not just a field โผ๏ธ... It's years of amazing memories...
Had some wonderful conversations with the locals in Billinge today. Being back reminded me how much I miss the village where I grew up, one of my biggest regrets was ever leaving it....
A tamer Alanis Morissette, yet a brilliant 90s album with #Tails, takes me back...
Lisa Loeb and nine stories....
Only available on #vinyl import, boo hiss ๐๏ธ๐ถ
#borabodur
Called in at an old favourite today, not even a hotel/restaurant anymore...
Also passed a pub I havenโt been to in over 30 years...
Places change. Memories donโt...
#Lindleyhotel#TheFox