What are you thinking right now?

[Minty]

Strangely enough, I polished off a chicken tikka masala today, resisting the temptation to make my own pakora. Plenty left for tomorrow, when it is certain to be better after being given an extra day to soak.

I remember the 1998 World Cup only too well - the one in which the Brazilians sponsors insistence on Ronaldo playing in the final cost them the cup. We had a manager even worse than the infamous Ally McLeod in Andy Roxburgh - who had never managed a single team above schoolboy level in his life, nor ever did.

I hope Ollie isn't watching the Brazil-Australia match. Pretty horrific. The Socceroos are as bad as the Scotland team - full of players brilliant at club level but playing like they couldn't care less when for their national squad. Meanwhile the Kiwis field a largely amateur squad & place like furies. The stadium is near empty as well, because the Brazilians charged full price for a friendly & the local fans have made their feelings known about it with a boycott. It's so weird seeing a Brazil side playing to an empty ground.

I'm thinking it's getting cold, or maybe it's just me.