ONE FLICK, TWO GOALS, ONE GOAL DIFFERENCE

1. THE NIGERIAN Tosin Adarabioyo. Chelsea. Centre-back. Played every round of the FA Cup run. Arrived at Wembley with a hamstring problem. Still has not chosen between England and Nigeria. He played every round. Third round, fourth round, fifth round, quarter-final,...

THE SHAPE

A companion document to At a Church Off the Old Kent Road. Read this after Episode 3. Or before Episode 1. The shape does not care when you find it. You think two people are just together. They are not. They are building a shape. And neither of them chose what the...

Buffer

After Everything A sixty-five-year-old man has worked for forty years. A letter arrived showing what forty years of work is worth at retirement. The number doesn’t cover the rent. He didn’t do anything wrong. He just never understood what the system was...

The Letter

After Everything. Episode 2: Kola. 65. Woolwich. He has a system for Sunday evenings. He has had it since Peckham, since the first flat he could afford with the agency wages and the second job on weekends, since the version of himself who arrived at Heathrow in...

The Payslip

After Everything Episode 3: Phillip. 31. Deptford. His father kept important things in a red plastic folder in the second drawer of the desk in the back bedroom. Bills, letters, anything with a window on the envelope. When something arrived his father would take it to...

The Reflex

What you learned. At a church off the Old Kent Road, someone asked a question. Is love what you learned. Or something else? This season follows fifteen people who discovered they already had an answer. From what they watched. From the silences in the houses they grew...