The Fiver | A bizarre Wyndhamesque overnight knack

In today’s Fiver: England are playing some friendlies; Sven being Sven and more Tony Pulis haikus

At the start of John Wyndham’s post-apocalyptic science fiction novel the Day of the Triffids the narrator, Bill Masen, lies in a city-centre hospital, his eyes bandaged. A combination of circumstances too complicated to report here leads to him climbing from his bed, removing his bandages and – following an urge familiar to many Fiver readers – heading fairly directly to the nearest public house, where he meets a blind man who informs him that more or less everyone else is suddenly also blind.

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