Gutted! – Russians

Ah well, it’s all over and it looks like we won’t be hosting the World Cup in my lifetime – not that I’m getting on in years, but merely because I haven’t felt this sick in a long while and I’m not sure whether I’m going to recover from the disappointment of seeing Russia get the nod.

Maybe that is why Putin didn’t bother travelling – he already knew it was in the bag and so waste air fuel while you could be doing business with billionaire oil and gas barons.

Still, I have a trip to the Memorial Ground to cheer me up this tropical weekend, so life’s not all bad.