Bought my first boots and many years afterwards, first running shoes there. Believe it’s now a charity shop where the last time I visited, I saw a pair of boots for sale, a unintentional nod to history!

Beautiful! Any chance of a cryptic hint as to what number 8 will be? :-)

It’s a complete waste of time. I will give a donation to charity every time one of these interviews contains something remotely interesting or revealing. Suspect this won’t cost me much…

Never in doubt!

Yes agree. Her day isn’t getting any better.

Oh yes of course

Probably just as well that we didn’t have any penalty shoot outs during his era (I think…)

She was always going to ref the final once France were knocked out though. Often I’ve been impressed with her but today she hasn’t been great.

<tick symbol> !

It’s a great read, and sadly emphasised to me that the beautiful game moves further away from the everyday fan with every state-run club takeover and the awarding of locations of future tournaments. FIFA clearly understands money first and foremost.

Nothing new here, we experienced this in 1999 with a very prominent national EA and lost out on a house as a result. Some time later, we saw the employee (who had subsequently moved on) who admitted it was standard practice there. The chain still exists today albeit under a different name.

Love your work! Any chance of X-level updates here on Bluesky? Best wishes.