Is it really any different from sharing a taxi you pick up at the rank, only to find that the person in the queue in front or behind you is going to the same place, and you agree to share?

That’s been happening for years — even last season, someone offered to share a taxi with me from Lime Street to the ground.

I still try to avoid it like. A couple of years ago, the conversation turned to global warming (the taxi was diesel, and he was switching to electric). The passenger brought it up, and the driver enthusiastically agreed — apparently, the main cause of global warming wasn’t vehicle emissions, but brake dust. I kid you not.