Went down to the beach bar to watch the football yesterday. Biggest day in English football since… the last biggest day in English football. As we never really win anything, every match becomes its own ‘biggest’ thing by default. Though safe to say it probably was Wales’s biggest day in football for over half a century.

And unlike any European beach bar anywhere else in the continent, this one was a sober affair. Ok, Tory-boy and I dutifully drank our beers and shouted a bit at the screen, its in the contract. But there were, approximately 6 people actually bothered about the match sufficiently to look. What were we to do? Who could we heckle? Abuse? Insult? Hurl chairs and bottles at?? Then I realised that its not because the Greeks don’t like football, we know they do. And the others at the bar; Russians, French, Germans, Americans, Italians, weren’t watching because Mykonos is an island famous for its gayness. And gays don’t do football. Its in the rule book. Whilst straight kids did extra football practice, the gay ones were doing a voluntary course in interior design. And you can’t hurl chairs and bottles at gays because that’s homophobic. And they’d only re-cover the chairs with something more Mediterranean-appropriate and put scented candles in the bottles anyway.

I’m not the biggest England fan in the world. Otherwise instead of being on a beach in Mykonos I’d be in a hospital in Marseilles recovering. But unlike England teams of the last 10 years, I kind’a like this one. Lots of Spurs players and no-one really obnoxious other than Rooney but I’m forgiving him for his past sins. Slowly. So an England win could only be a good thing. But a Welsh win would also have been good because Wales are Gareth Bale. And even though he’s recently descended in the inevitable pre-match Anglophobic bollocks, I still just love watching him play. If he was a bit more beautiful I’m sure the gay guys would have watched it too, but alas you can’t have everything in life.

Tragedy about Jo Cox, total tragedy. Even ultra-left Corbinite Hamas-lovers don’t deserve that. Interestingly though, the murderer was mentally unbalanced. No surprise there given the sheer brutality of the attack. What was really unusual was that he had a gun. If 5% (out’a no-where, just a speculative number) of any population is mentally unstable, would you want them armed, as they would, quite legally be, in America? Hmmmm…

RIP Jo Cox. What a horror for her lovely, young family.

Happy but sad Friday

A xxxx