Life is just one big ball game. Hitting a ball with sticks, over a net or into a hole, passing it or kicking it.
An obsession, a fever almost, that is affecting millions of us.
The absurdity of it. While the pandemic that crept into the world in winter 2019 is threatening to overwhelm us our minds are fixated on fun and games. Not so much fun, either, with the results showing our sporting limitations.
For the government it is a convenient smoke screen for the much bigger, more dangerous game being played - the decisions on freeing Covid restrictions.
Delay, indecision, lack of clarity and poor leadership from the top, at least in England. Gareth Southgate, the England soccer manager’s style and leadership has been in stark contrast to Mr Johnson’s.
The problems mount up by the day. Chaos in transport and travel, test and trace and a whole heap of trouble arising from isolation rules, rising costs and inflation fuelled by Brexit, PM Johnson blithely carries on.
After divesting himself of his England soccer shirt and, probably, his mask after tomorrow, he sees ‘freedom’ ahead while the world stares, aghast.
What is happening to the once Great Britain?
It is diminishing before our eyes, soon to be little England.
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