Slaying my Demons

It was a huge weekend of sport but one match more than any other moved me.

I’ve thought a lot this weekend about the arbitrary nature of being a sports fan.

Most sports reporters start as fans, that’s what attracted us to the trade in the first place. Most sports journalists of my era, however, quickly learned to lock the fan part of you in a box and tell it to shut up. It was what was expected. If you were seated in the press …