Why midnight kick-offs are the best
A Continental Cup night in London starts at midnight here. It should be a hardship. It is the opposite.
In winter, when the Continental Cup music plays in London at eight in the evening, the clock in Victoria says midnight. Most of the island is asleep. A few hundred of us are not.
A different kind of crowd
The midnight crowd is the committed crowd. Nobody drifts in for the second half. You chose to be there, and so did everyone around you.
The walk home
There is nothing like a win at two in the morning, the streets empty, the sea quiet, and your phone still buzzing with the group chat.
The cost
Yes, Thursday mornings are hard. We have accepted this.
