The tea lady, once a fixture at British soccer clubs, endures mostly as a mythical image from a simpler time. For the tea ladies and tea boys of British soccer, those are the orders that stick in the mind, like unstirred sugar at the bottom of a mug. Even as players and managers became ever richer and the game ever more professionalized, the tea ladies remained the bedrock. On match days, she looks after a group not always accustomed to sympathy on match day: the media. “The best tea, in my opinion, is Yorkshire tea — it’s a beautiful tea, that is.

Source: New York Times April 20, 2017 04:07 UTC