shake hands

Chelsea were tempted to shake hands there and then, but opted to finish the selection process.

Alexi Lalas, once a bruising center back, looks at politics the same way he looks at soccer, as a contact sport in which you fight to the end, then shake hands.

Maybe that’s why World Cups end with the two teams shaking hands, one offering congratulations and the other condolences, and elections don’t.

When a photo later appeared in the paper showing him shaking hands with then Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams a sign was placed at the end of his street calling him a traitor.

“I shake hands with them when they come in. … But others have decided to go eat somewhere else because it’s not worth the headache.”