(...we're 17 articles deep into Below The Curva; it was a statistical inevitability that a shoehorned piece of alliteration would find its way into a title sooner or later)

So I’ve decided to board the Substack bandwagon and us the platform as a place to scribble out all the thoughts that come into my head about world football! Hopefully it’ll be a therapeutic practice amid the endless cycle or apocalyptic doomscrolling 🤞🏻

…I was wrong. It had a happier ending