S2, Ep8 How to Fail: David Baddiel
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
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The Final Failure: Football
I wanted to be a footballer when I was a kid, at some level, I mean, completely wrongly. So you can feel things very strongly that are not true, that I should have been a footballer,. That I was good enough to be a football, and that that was my true calling. And it's a very, very narrow idea of the novelist. To think that a novelist would be someone who will only stays in their tiny room listening to Beethoven. No. Although talking of football leads us on seriously to your final failure, which concerns football and more specifically a comic relief match. Yes, you were allowed to evolve and be complementary and contradictory because you are a human.
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