Inspired by :
- Michael Ridpath, a former bond trader and now popular crime novelist;
- my high school teacher who failed my english exam and subsequently spent hours guiding me on how to write. The whole time was spent solely discussing how one could write about eating a pie at the football, how it oozes out all over one's face and shirt, how the sauce might change the flavour and the smell pervades the icy cold wind of the football ground.