I couldn’t bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again.

And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do.

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts.

I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.

Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.

But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat.