Now, as she watched her husband across the pub being one of the lads, she suddenly realised that James was calling across the table to her. It was almost impossible – so noisy. She laughed and cupped an ear in his direction. He grinned back. “What did you think of that then?” he yelled, leaning closer to her.
“Yeah, it was wicked,” she called back. “Loved it! Five nil!” She looked at him to see whether he would continue speaking, but he seemed to decide with a helpless shrug that this atmosphere just wasn’t conducive to having any normal kind of conversation across the table. Kay turned instead to chat with Leila, one of the other girlfriends that came along, who was sitting next to her. Leila was studying a page in the match programme with more interest than Kay expected she could have s
