Swan Songs #4: Swansea 3-0 West Brom

by Maxwell Kuhl

On a windy afternoon, sun-swept
in a kingdom of clumsy kings and by them
the indifferent shade of their own inertia

Through Gritted Teeth #2: Arjen Robben

by Ethan Dean-Richards

I’m a half-hearted fan of West Bromwich Albion: a half-hearted football fan, in fact. Synthetic club rivalries don’t wake me up from my apathy and my contempt for all players is shared out more or less equally. Roman Abramovich’s takeover of Chelsea managed to make me care though: one billionaire artificially stimulating a club’s success made football seem arbitrary and insignificant, and that pissed me off. From there, Chelsea have always been the enemy for me. Two men have proved exceptions to that rule, but I’ll only be talking about one of them here because the other is Jose Mourinho and that’s all been said (by Paul Hayward, largely).