I have just got back from hols in Spain!

Dear Reader, the English team has a lot to do in order to reach the standards of the
Dutch, German and Spanish teams. Perhaps the best we can hope for is the Spanish team to break up with the nationalist pressures of the Catalan and the Basque regions. A former FC Barcelona president, Joan Laporta, has called for independence of Catalonia, the region provided quite a few players to Spain's winning team. However, I am sure that Brazil would not mess up with the next World Cup being on its home soil.

The actual World Cup final was a bit of a disappointment but at least the team playing the football won the game. In the first half I was kept on being asked why the English ref was not sending off Dutch players and I said he was trying to keep them on the pitch so as to avoid the game descending into farce.

Coming back to Blighty was a bit of a bore in football terms with no Spizz to track
during the summer break and with West Ham trying to put more money into the hands of
the agents.