I visited my friend Mark yesterday morning to watch a soccer match between Tottenham and Manchester United, which ended in a 2-2 tie. The game was held at Old Trafford in Manchester, which has been "home ground" for Manchester United since 1910. However, Old Trafford was bombed back in 1941 by the Germans, and so the only part of Old Trafford that is actually old is the central tunnel. And after looking at that tunnel on the internet, I have to say it is not impressive. The rest of the place looks like any other modern stadium, as seen in the photograph above, showing Mark posing in front of the redeveloped East Stand, opened at the beginning of the 2000-2001 season. Mark is wearing his Tottenham jersey in the photo, which I strongly advise against doing if you are attending the game at a rival soccer team's stadium. Soccer fans in the UK are sensitive souls, and get a bit put out when people do that. In other words, run like hell. Mark, by the way, is still working at the University of Denver's Anderson Academic Commons (the library), and this past weekend was recovering from a busy first week of the Winter Quarter. Which is what I would have been doing, too, if I hadn't been laid off from the DU Bookstore by Follett Higher Education Group back in 2012. And after all these years, I am still not bitter about it. Not at all. No way.
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