Indeed. As reported here
There were many stories from within the Blair government about how everything would stop for a big game and that it was Blair and Brown's interest in common. Whatever else you can say about the pair of them, their love of football is not in question. Mind you, Harold...
Same here.
What I don't get about this story is why CMD has to pretend to be a football fan? It didn't use to happen: Ted Heath and Maggie Thatcher made no secret of their distaste for football (it was before my time but I don't think Macmillan or Douglas Home were exactly denizens of the...