I should have been on Retreat today..
I should have been on Retreat today.. I should have be on retreat today, I had penciled in two days and one night in a travel lodge on the M6 near Penrith to restore my spiritual wellbeing and engage in a bit of me and God time. Alas my mate Chris, who was coming with me had a late night disagreement with a Covid test and bailed out on me last minute. This happened, just as I had celebrated Burnley football club taking a well deserved three nil lead against Hull City under the floodlights of a very wet stadium in the very depths of East Yorkshire. It was only my second away trip of the year, my first being to the cold concrete cacophony of the rather soulless DW stadium of Wigan Athletic where Burnley rattled in five goals, just the two more than I was treated to last night at the home of the Tigers. As someone who doesn't identify as a football antagonist I found the seat chosen for me and my daughter to be uncomfortably close to Hull City's...