Scenes north of the border as the Scots wait for Sports Direct to open this morning to buy a Spain shirt.
Not even a joke, for last 20 years I’ve kept track of who we’re playing next by the football tops being worn by operators at my work. The number of people I know who went across for the craic this year without a ticket is phenomenal. If it was purely a fan competition they’d walk it.
As a young 11 year old I would sometimes ‘peruse’ my aunties Brian Mills catalogue when I went to visit my cousins in Ryhope. As a 16 year old in 1983 I was on a YTS working for Littlewoods in Hendon where their catalogue stuff was administered from. Even though I went out with a girl who worked there I was very disappointed to find that 99.9% of the predominantly female workforce didn’t look anything like the lasses in their catalogue.
I’ll have you know that cross-dressing septuagenarian women of short stature and who prefer non-monogamous relationships can be very alluring.
I've just finished reading a book called 'How to end sentences with Beatles song titles' That's 2 hours of my life that I won't get back ! The author was a paperback writer