He sat down 4 rows away with his back to me, and the iPad came on in his lap, and it stayed on until Euston.
I could see the corner of the screen between the seats. A corner kick, frozen, 2 men in yellow bibs stood on the halfway line of pitch 2 at Beckenham. Every time the train went through a station the light from the platform went across it, and Bray did not look up.
Mamadou Sakho was asleep across 2 seats with his coat over his face and a carrier bag of boots on his chest, going up and down.
Across the table from him, Michael Olise and Nya Kirby were arguing about whose mum did the better Christmas dinner. They kept it quiet so as not to wake him, and lost the argument to each other in turn.
Kirby said roast potatoes. Olise said his mum does the turkey the night before, and you cannot argue with a woman who has been up since 4.
