Sarah read me Inter's 22 in a car park in Huddersfield at 20 to 9 on Saturday night, because reading a submitted list is her job and she had it on her phone before the coach doors shut.
"Asamoah is not in it. Nainggolan is."
Marcus rang 40 minutes later off the M1 with the wind of a service station behind him.
"38 million euros in June, and he has started 3 in a row for a man who does not start anybody 3 in a row. Spalletti is not bringing him to sit in a back 4."
"So what is he bringing him for?"
"Rúben," Marcus said. "He is bringing him for Rúben."
He was right. That was the match.
We slept 2 miles from the stadium on the Monday and about 400 people on the internet wanted to know why, because we are a London club playing in London. Beckenham to Wembley is 21 miles and it is the wrong 21 miles, south east to north west, across the whole thing, on a Tuesday, for an 8 o'clock kick off.
