A new issue of our Field Notes, on Theo Walcott and the keepers of the Old West. Read it here.
The blow strikes as a sign on the landscape showing you that it’s your time to turn diagonally. An abstract design, perhaps. But one that, with the linear stroke of one lethal pass (the through-ball, in case you need telling), could transform even the Navajo people, those pacific agriculturalists, into hunters for at least a millennium.