Citing the examples, anecdotes & words of Coltrane, Van Gogh, Chesterton, Einstein, Mondrian, Cruyff and Bob Dylan to tell you why football writing matters.
‘’Have you heard the story about the Church of St. Coltrane?’’ I ask the musician who asked me, ‘why football writing?’
It is one of those questions you get asked so often at parties that you eventually get better at answering them. This story is an answer.
John Coltrane blew air into a pipe for a living. He was pretty good at it too until he started to think that his talent privileged his behaviour.