This weekend on the bus I was listening in to a young guy on the phone to his friend talking football. In the course of their talk on season tickets, turnstiles, match schedules, stadiums, I heard the guy say to his mate, 'Ibrox is a Schiphol', and then again 'Ibrox is a Schiphol'.
I wondered what exactly that phrase meant, what benchmark within the footballing world did Schiphol represent. I didn't even know there was a stadium in Schiphol. All I knew was that there was an airport.
Then I thought how interesting it is that your knowledge of places and cities can be shaped and defined by your love of a sport or music or whatever. You know a place through a match you watched there or an event that took you there.
Then he said it for a third time - 'Ibrox is a shit hole'.
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