WHENEVER I’m asked what the result of any football match will be, my reply is always the same. “Two-one.”
“But who to?”
“Ah, that only God knows.”

I have Fr Robert in Dubrovnik to thank for that line. It’s how he answered when I called him from Moscow ahead of Croatia’s World Cup semi-final against England in 2018 asking him what the score would be. It was indeed 2-1, to Croatia.