There Will Always Be an England

Edited by Jack McCallum and Richard O'Brien

September 19, 1994

To judge by this sign, spotted beside a motorway rest stop in Manchester, England, it would seem that the British have the right idea (although we might have included basketball coaches as well). But, alas, things are not as they seem. In Britain a "coach" is what Americans call a bus, and "football" is, of course, soccer. A football coach, then, is a busload of soccer fans.