KABUL TO BLACKBURN

Ewood Park, 9:45pm, September 11th 2002 GOAL! Zola receives the ball, deftly cuts inside his man and unleashes a curler into the top corner to make it 3-2. The winner, surely. That makes the long journey worthwhile. Kabul Airport, 3pm, September 10th Six hours into my journey from Kabul to Ewood Park, a distance of some 4,500 miles, I’ve made ...

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