So...had the lurgy this weekend-whatever bug has been going round my class- so today has consisted of lying on the settee looking at the pile of unmarked books and thinking 'can't face that'. But, what I have done is watch Italian, German and French football with some European cup rugby sandwiched in between.

And in every game, the amount of cheating-mainly in the form of play-acting-has been shocking. Whether it's feeling the slightest contact and throwing themselves down like they've been shot or acting like an extra in a disaster movie by writhing around like they're in the latter stages of ebola even though the contact wasn't enough to trouble a particularly fragile butterfly.

It's the sort of shite we see in our league too and, for me, it massively detracts from all of the positive stuff on show.

(I mentioned the rugby because the hits those boys take and then just get up and dust themselves down makes our sport just look embarrassing.)

Anyway, jumpers for goalposts, etc.

Bah,

rant over.