Elena Vasquez had placed that clip at the very end of an episode about my mother in a Moss Side kitchen, and she had done it deliberately.
Four and a half million people watched it. I didn't see it until Tuesday the twenty-first of August simply because I had stopped the video at forty minutes while on a plane over the Baltic.
I sent Michael Cooke a single message at ten past midnight:
Watched the end of ep 6. You never said you did that interview.
He replied at six the next morning:
I did not think you would ever watch it. Nobody who has been in the room needs to.
Vicarage Road holds 21,000, making it the smallest ground we visit all season.
Watford had won two out of two and started the afternoon above us on goal difference. Javi Gracia had built a side with Doucouré, Deeney, and Hughes that had scored inside forty-seven minutes every week since the eleventh.
Aaron Wan-Bissaka was serving his suspension.
