“SELL ME A NUKE”

In town drinking coffee. Walked from home to the bottom of Park Street across the Centre, up Corn Street, picked up a Gregg’s as I passed through the Galleries.
In the lift with a young man the door closing on the ground floor when I saw one of the older caretakers come round the corner from the entrance and pressed the ‘door open’ button.
‘That’s very kind of you,’ he said getting in.
‘You’re welcome.’
He took a copy of The Sun out from an inside pocket of a quilted cut-off and looked at the headline, “SELL ME A NUKE’.
‘Mmm,’ he said.
He turned the paper over. The back cover had a photograph of Alan Shearer after Newcastle were beaten by Chelsea in the Cup.
‘It’s all over for him.’
‘Fifteen years he’s been at Newcastle and they’ve won nothing.’
‘Lot of time for no return,’ he said and left the lift stopped at his floor.