Car trouble and strife, phoning Fergie and flanking Sir Bobby at the latrine

Another week, another few hundred miles clocked up chronicling the best (and sometimes worst) the beautiful game has to offer.

So it was off to âÂÂthe Land of Our Fathersâ last week to watch Cardiff take on Sven's expensively-assembled Leicester in the Carling Cup. A Welsh friend of mine mentioned that I would be gracing "Gods country". At ã5.70 to cross the bridge I'm inclined to suggest it was more the work of his sworn enemy.

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