Redknapp is reported to have said…!
Thursday, July 8th, 2010It is rather cloudy this morning; the low clouds seem to have trapped the hot muggy air between us, and the clear blue sky above it. There appears really to be no relief from the hot weather. Heat without sunshine is so depressive, don’t you find?
My scribe says that she will return to not being interested in football after today. For this grain of sanity we must be grateful, as every time she decides to support a team, and actually watch with us on the sofa, they lose. So you can see by last night results, which team carried the dubious honour of carrying her favours in to battle. It is said that Spain had magnets on their boots and that the ball designed in Loughborough GB was an ingenious and deliberate attempt to subvert Germanys 4-2-3-1 system when used correctly. (Couldn’t someone have informed the England Team?)
We investigated the saga of the England team’s under 19s debacle mentioned in yesterday’s blog, and it appears, according to the Telegraph’s Henry Winter (who is still, we take it, Cape Town’s correspondent, though they don’t say so in print today), that Harry Redknapp does have the say as to whether the four youngsters could join the England Under-19 squad in France, mentioned yesterday. Redknapp is reported to have said ‘If they need the kids, we will get it sorted out.’ Is this the words of a man flexing his power muscles, or a man with an eye to his future, when the fabulous Capello makes the top job vacant? This is absolutely my last word on football, my scribe says.
My friends in the Lake District are very short on water, the news reports tell us. This is hard to believe having trawled through rain belts, carrying heavy downpours this time last year. I would not have believed the state of reservoirs if I had not seen them for myself two weeks ago. I hope both Rutland and the Lakes get some rain soon. As you know I don’t do the heat, and my river is turning into a stream very quickly.
I am of course
La Grande Sophie.