France are in the World Cup final. The country everyone hates, along with all the others, has made it. Beat Belgium’s ‘golden generation’ in quite a thrilling but not very exciting match. Which left all that ‘gold’ somewhat tarnished. Again.

And tonight its our turn. Against them Croats. Our destiny. And every time I hear Gareth Southgate speak I’m impressed. I haven’t started wearing a waistcoat yet (nor fucking EVERRR will) but surely its only a matter of time until we all do. Metaphorically at least.

Christiano Ronado can afford all the waistcoats he wants. He’s left Real Madrid in a massive(ly expensive) move to Juventus. He’ll earn 30 million Euros a year. After tax. Not that anyone pays much of that in Italy, not even the presidents. Which will provide a nice little ‘nest egg’ for his retirement. So he’ll be able to afford winter fuel when he’s old.

Last night they had a program on about time travel and its possibility, or not. No-one watched the program because it was on at the same time as the Belgium/France game, but it looked interesting. Because I’ve always (but haven’t we all?) been fascinated by the prospect of such an endeavour. Even after Einstein came up with his famous equation (none of which have ever been proved wrong) which shows that were you to reach the speed of light, as you’d need to to travel in time, you would pretty much cease to exist. Not that anything can ever travel faster than light anyway. But you’d either vanish or something else weird would happen as the equation would have you turn into the square root of a minus number. Which doesn’t exist in the real world. Not that Einstein’s world was that ‘real’ in any meaningful sense. But real enough. Though the silly thing about all this ‘time travel; can we? can’t we? will we? won’t we?’ is that we know the answer is unfortunately an emphatic ‘Non!’, like Brexit offers. Because if anyone had ever invented such a mechanism, even in 100, 1000, 10,000 years time; they’d come back. And then we’d know. In fact they’d have come back to 1753, bringing their super-technology and waistcoats with them. If anyone will ever devise time travel we’d have always known it. And don’t mix your tenses when talking about anything else.

Happy Wednesday

COME ON ENGLAND!!!!!

A xxxx