The Match (1959)

UK

Short Story

Author: Alan Sillitoe

After Notts Counts have just lost 2-1 to Bristol City at Meadow Lane, Lennox, a 40-year-old, short-sighted, and decidedly grouchy mechanic, and Fred, a happy-go-lucky newly wed, go home to their neighbouring terraced houses for tea with their respective families, but tensions soon rise in the former’s home, in Sillitoe’s joylessly perceptive short story. Iain.Stott