Columns, bulletins, reports, previews, analysis, questions, answers. News rooms and television studios are haunted by the presence of their absence. Upstairs in the stadium ex-players and ‘experts’ survey the arena, discussing what they cannot and will not see. The two who are not there. But down below, way beneath their feet, eleven far more important individuals lay waiting. Eleven chosen men who know in their hearts that after all the explaining, talking, fighting and negotiating the dreams and ambitions of the thousands upon thousands now rest in their hands. Who they are not and where they have been makes