The Singing Rabbitte:

3.

I didn’t smile during the first half.  I’m referring to the Chelsea-Fulham match, not The Commitments.  But it’s true of both events.

I went to the Chelsea game last Saturday, to take my mind off the first preview of The Commitments.  It didn’t really work.  The football was bad and the man beside me who kept shouting, ‘You’re not farking Arsenal!’, stopped being amusing after the seventh or eighth roar.

I left at half-time.  It wasn’t a protest.  It had been a late kick-off – 5.30pm – and I had to get to the Palace Theatre by 7.30pm, for the preview.  Chelsea scored twice while I was on the Tube, so my departure was a stroke of tactical genius that Jose Mourinho failed to acknowledge after the game.

But, anyway, I went from one event that irritated me – I usually love being at Stamford Bridge – to … Read More »