[Beckenham. Thursday 2 August 2018.]
Marcus put it on the wall of the analysts' room at 8 in the morning, on the projector, next to a clip of Manchester City's first 12 minutes against Arsenal in April.
UNITED KINGDOM. TV. TODAY.1. THE WALSH WAY.
"You have knocked a cooking programme off," he said.
"Marcus."
"I am telling you because 30 of them have seen it and 1 of them is going to say something to you today and I did not want it to be a surprise." He clicked back to City. "Right. Fernandinho drops between the centre-halves in the 4th minute and does not come out again for an hour."
That is the only conversation anybody in that building had about it.
3 weeks later a man in a newspaper wrote 900 words about how Crystal Palace had become a television programme.
We watched Manchester City for 40 minutes and then we went out on the grass.
Prrrrp.
Sarah took the first hour and it is the best session we have had since we landed.
