Top football banter preceded this week as Serbian keeper Đorđe Petrovic, the player England stars will try to bypass in their Euro 2024 fixture on Sunday, conceded that fellow Chelsea player Cole Palmer nicknamed him “Beetroot” in training on account of his rampant consumption of the vegetable. In riposte? Petrovic dubbed Palmer “Beans”, the classic British staple, because Palmer supposedly scoffs them regularly. Back in the news, then.
Is this unrelated? Sort of. But the news reminded me that there are innumerable facets of life that aren’t worth the effort, and making your own baked beans, for a cooked breakfast, is one of them.
