The World Cup

"Ah'm reet proud am I, thas nowt better than t'world cup!"

I had to put this photograph on the Blog, just to brag about how the world cup came to our little village in the middle of the Andalucia Mountains of Southern Spain. Oh yes! Spain won the football world cup in 2010 and so the cup has toured the length and breadth of Spain to allow everyone to see it in the flesh, well, in the gold.

The World Cup was being shown in our local village town hall, guarded by three stout men, actually, one was a waiter called Manolito and is about 5 foot tall, the other two lads were a bit taller, no matter, the world cup was in our village and so I decided to go and see it for myself, along with a friend called Bernard Clarke, a 73 year drummer in a band called the Exiled (a local expatriates formed a band, I was in it for a while.)

I was almost impressed! I have to say it is a rather gross looking item, sort of all lumpy, bumpy and in need of a good polishing, stubby to look with a green ring at the bottom  and resting on a small table made it look like it belonged to some old aunty, displayed like one of those china dogs, all lonely and lifeless. Bernard asked if I was going to have my photo taken with it but I declined on the grounds that I looked like I had been out all night at a rave and dressed in a Baseball cap, T-Shirt and Jeans that were full of paint I would have made the world cup look very unglamorous.

Thank god my young friend James Roper, a brilliant and feared striker with the local team (I have to put that in so he won’t moan about using his photo;-) had his photo taken with the world cup as evidence.

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