I am a football journalist, but I won’t watch my team on Good Friday

Despite it being a crucial fixture in Portsmouth FC’s quest for promotion, Benjamin McFadyean explains why he won’t watch their match this Easter

For Christians, Good Friday is the great day of remembrance. It is a day of prayer and mourning, as we mark the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, historically recorded to have happened in Jerusalem around 2,000 years ago at the hands of the Romans.

It is a day on which we remember the sacrifice of Jesus for the sins of mankind. He paid the ultimate price for teaching a message of love and forgiveness, especially for those most humbled by life; the poor and the meek. Christ’s message is one of true life and hope, and it is still needed today, perhaps more than ever.