Football Daily | So much football! This weekend, two screens might not be enough

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Some phrases are commonised so quickly that it?s easy to forget how new they are. The concept of the second-screen experience wasn?t regularly discussed on these pages until 2012; a decade later it is much a part of our lives as privately WISHING TO HELL YOU?D PUT THAT BLOODY TABLET DOWN AND LISTEN TO THE DIALOGUE PROPERLY ? IT?S CASSAVETES! But never mind the second-screen experience. We?re now moving towards the age of the second first-screen experience, in which a dopamine fiend watches two football matches/episodes of Dawson?s Creek simultaneously. We know this because, for the last few years, Football Daily has been that dopamine fiend. This weekend, two screens might not be enough.
It took me a while to get used to it and unfortunately I couldn?t continue. It was really a matter of the altitude. It?s surreal here? ? Palmeiras forward Est?v?o ? who will join Chelsea for ?29m later this year ? had an 18th birthday to remember, netting his side?s second in a 3-2 Copa Libertadores win over Bolivar before dropping to the turf, throwing up and leaving the field on a stretcher as the high altitude of La Paz took its toll. Reminds us of Football Daily?s 18th ? minus the goal, of course.
Are we to assume that the reason Manchester United Women are taking part in the new World Sevens tournament (yesterday?s News, Bits and Bobs, full email edition) is because that?s the size of their squad now thanks to The (Big Sir) Jim Reaper?? ? Derek McGee.
Following the preview of Saturday?s FA Cup semi-final (yesterday?s Football Daily), can I be the first of 1,057 pedants to point out that Wembley Way does not exist. The pedestrianised street leading from Wembley Park station to Wembley Stadium is (and has always been) called Olympic Way. Blackburn fans born before the 1995 Charity Shield (for example) could be forgiven the mistake, but everyone else (especially otherwise well-informed tea-timely football emails) should know better? ? Chris Carter (and no others).
Nice shout for the Human League, a terrific league (Wednesday?s Football Daily). According to the band?s Wikipedia page, the name came from a science-fiction board game. So, if a great league can get its name from a related activity, this suggests that an excellent name for a football league would be the Football League. Yes, that has a familiar and comforting ring to it? ? Mike Wilner.
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