Here's what I think football can teach us about the Christian journey

We have reached the end of the football season – the point at which winners and losers are determined. The ten-month, 38-game marathon, which began last August, finally draws to its climactic conclusion.

The season’s finish provides either the highest highs or the lowest lows as a year’s effort boils down to a handful of key moments when players must perform at their best or face the unravelling of much of the work they have put in throughout the year.

Viewers were blessed with excitement right to the end of this season both north and south of the border, with Scotland enjoying its closest title race in 15 years and England’s Premier League seeing its battles at the top and bottom go down to the last couple of matches.