FFS

For those of you who understand these internet abbreviation thingies, please accept my apologies for the language used.

Further to my blog yesterday, it appears Bradford Bulls chairman Peter Hood wasn’t joking at all, and he has now instigated legal proceedings against the RFL, where this is all going to end I don’t know.

Over the past few years I have found plenty of things embarassing when it comes to supporting the Bulls, whether it be incessant whining about decisions, bizzarre conspiracy theories about the whole RL world trying to do us down or the fact that everyone from Bradford Council through to Morrisons Supermarkets via every national and local newspaper has it in for us and is trying to do us in, but this is something else, and a large part of me hopes that this ends up having some serious negative consequences for the club.

Thank you Spanish television

I´m going to Barcelona next week for a couple of days. Those of you who have known me for a while will know I wasn´t too enamoured with the place after the five days I spent there last year, but I thought I´d give it another couple of days to see what everyone raves on about, a quick glance at the La Liga fixtures showed Atletico were paying a visit on December 20th so, as that was great timing I thought I´d book a flight from Madrid to Barcelona for the 18th, spend a couple of days there, then fly back home, from Barcelona on the 21st.

Given the fact that Atletico and Barca are two of the biggest, and currently best, teams in the competition I figured it was likely the game could have it´s kick off time changed for TV coverage, so I waited and waited before booking my flight back to England before finally taking the plunge two weeks ago, while the price was still reasonable as there had been no indication of any kick-off change, and the televised games for that week were being advertised.

Lo and behold I check things out today to find the game has been moved to Thursday night, so I´ll probably be back in Manchester watching it on SKY Sports, fantastic.

Having said that all is not lost, I get to give Barca a second chance, there shouldn´t be too many obnoxious British tourists about and I get to meet up with Suzanne again (one of those nice girls from the park) who is working as a teacher there, so I guess I shouldn´t complain too much.

But I like to.