Craig felt like the loneliest man in the world at that moment. It was impossible, but he wanted the ground to open up and swallow him completely. He wanted to no longer exist in his current state. He wanted to feel safe and comforted, not like a man in the middle of a high pressure [...]
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Sam came racing off his goal line and dived at the feet of the striker in front of him. Making himself as big as he could, he blocked the ball and made the save. He’d done it three times already to that same forward and he could see that he was getting frustrated with how [...]
The ball bounced just the wrong side of the line from Danny’s point of view. His shot was slightly too long, by a matter of millimetres, but it didn’t matter. It was a point that he’d lost and, in turn, that meant he had lost the game. The game that he had served; the news [...]
‘I’ll bring my boots,’ he’d said to them. ‘I’m available that weekend,’ he’d said to them. ‘You can count on me,’ he’d said to them. So sitting on the subs’ bench on a rainy Sunday morning wasn’t exactly how Kevin had imagined his swansong in veteran’s league football. He had been expecting to play from [...]
The finish line was in sight. Andy’s Ferrari raced towards it, flat out and as fast as it could go. He was almost done with three laps of the circuit, following tight hairpins, twisted track, long straights and thick apex corners. And he was heading for a record time, he could tell that from the [...]
