It is precisely this ability of narrative not merely to order the past but to run ahead of the present, to give us an expectation, which is the presupposition for the new to be recognized as new, as the surprise that changes the plot, or what Aristotle called the peripety,
the unexpected change in fortune.
Alex Mcleish must be hoping that his side's
fortunes will
change starting from this fixture as his team finds themselves
in the middle of an
unexpected «mid-winter break» as their previous two fixtures have been called - off due to the snowy weather
in England.