With a whistle, Tottenham's match against Manchester City began. Cheers thundered through Manchester Stadium, the home advantage pushed to its peak.
As a major city in northern Britain, Manchester had two world-famous top-tier teams: Manchester United and Manchester City. Because of these two clubs, Manchester had become a city of football, where everyone, young and old, male and female, watched the game.
The name Tottenham Hotspur came both from a nobleman named "Harry Hotspur" in Shakespeare's plays and from fighting cocks.
Harry Hotspur's name came from the spurs on his boots when he rode horses, while fighting cocks also had spurs tied to their feet. Since their traditional home kit was white, Tottenham fans were known as the Lilywhites.
Only fiercely contested matches like this were worth watching. Yet not everyone had the chance to follow a live broadcast, such as taxi drivers on duty.
This was when traditional radio broadcasts came in handy again. While the Smith family ate dinner, the radio beside the table was broadcasting Manchester City versus Tottenham live. The biggest difference between television and radio broadcasts was how much the commentator talked.
Television viewers could see the action themselves, so if the commentator kept chattering nonstop, they would find it irritating.
Radio listeners could only rely on the commentator's descriptions, and naturally hoped he would be as detailed as possible. The host on the station the Smith family was listening to was certainly eloquent enough.
The sound livened up the quiet dinner table considerably, but Felix still looked restless. After all, he was dining at the same table as "stomachache" Snape.
The table manners at the Slytherin table were rather "fantastical." Sometimes everyone behaved impeccably, beyond reproach; other times they were utterly lawless, not like aristocrats at all, but more like a pack of monkeys