Is he not into football because he's not into sports or because football is considered more of a working class sport in the UK?
Do upper class people tend to shun football?
I don't have a lot of experience in pubilshing. So far first authorship and secondary authorships were very clear and I had no issues.
I am starting a new collaboration where I think it is implicity understood that it is going to be a first co-authorship because it's between two PhDs doing an equal amount of work and equally eager to be first author.
My lab colleagues are however telling me that in practice, even if you have the equal contribution asterix, everyone wants to be first name on the author list and have their name be the reference, and besides, it's unlikely that both of us will end up contributing 50% in the end.
They say we should decide first authorship beforehand and the first author should take responsability and do most of the work.
IDK what to think. I like my new collaborator but I also don't want to put a huge amount of work to then end up as pseudo second author.