QUOTE : The only news he wanted to hear was that<br />people had become a little sensible and decent and peace-<br />ful; he disliked this Cup-Tie attitude, in which people<br />took sides for the sake of excitement, and rooted for<br />their team to win without any sense of responsibility.<br />This passion for vicarious belligerence! Obviously<br />neither of them really believed that anything unpleasant<br />would happen to them, and the bogey of being stoned by<br />strikers was only evoked for the sake of a little uncostly<br />excitement.