I'm not going to go on about it, but I AM going to finally say what I've thought for years, but due to politeness and sometimes circumstances judged better NOT to say! Not just in Football or in Sport generally, but in almost every walk of life, I have found the British, the English in particular, extremely irritating. World wide, they are the only thing that counts (they say) - their language should be the only one anybody - but everybody - should speak, and of course, the whole world should drive on the wrong side of the road - like themselves! Apart from the situation in Sport, very "actual" at the moment, they still continue to attack other Nations as "spicks", banana republics, invoking historical quotes - mainly racist ones, to "prove" their point! Sport is important, both as a financial element in a country's budget, but also as an indicator of that country's mentality. It wasn't the German newspapers and other publications ...

I've just been listening to another one of those radios programmes, you know, the ones like the TV programmes who say that they pride themselves on informing us - the public - to the absolute best of their ability. They're probable not going to like this article, like a lot of other people, but I feel that it is now necessary to ask the questions. I had hoped that somebody, somewhere, would take the risk of getting fired by the Beeb or someone else, and ask those questions that are NEVER asked, and to which most people would love an answer. At the moment, a great deal of talk in all the Media about the Church (particularly the Catholic one, but I daresay that others are just as concerned in the subject). Paedophilie, homosexuality, simple - straight forward questions about life - questions that touch everyone, and to which we never get an answer, mainly because the questions are never asked! ******* I don't know how many Priests, nuns, vicars, clergymen...