Not earth shattering news, I know, but my grandson will play for the U16 Perth Glory academy team against U16's Barcelona in Spain in a few days time then onto England two days later for a couple of weeks where they will play against U16's Man City, Middlesborough and Sunderland.

Perth Glory is the only professional football team in Western Australia and plays in the Australian "A" league against teams from the other Australian states.

I rate the "A" League as somewhere between lower Championship and League 1 standard in England.

It's not often a young team from Australia gets the chance to play abroad.

Early this year he and his team were in Singapore playing in an U16's seven a side comp against Man Utd, Liverpool Fulham and Valencia to name but a few and one of his team is now contracted to Fulham.

Last year his "Glory" team won the U18's Perth NPL (National Premier League).

Will be a big learning curve and just sorry I wont be there to watch.