Sore eyes witnessed extra-time of Liverpool's eventual 3-1 European Super Cup victory - the result of which did please me more than the game or the performance themselves.
Shouldn't CSKA's Dudu have been wearing 'number 2'??
And another anonymous performance from Morientes...why?
Let him join Norwich City on a season's loan, and allow Owen back through the Shankly gates, for the best year at Anfield since 1990, (perhaps 2001).
And Norwich haven't even won a game yet...

I read today that Norwich has become a very popular city with "Essex Man", which brought about a long pause in my daily work routine...can anyone from Essex confirm Norwich's new found title?

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Autumn air has given rise to thoughts afar, and hot spring baths. I've been invited to one this autumn, and I immediately accepted, remembering my last visit to one, in November '04 near Kyoto. A good 55 minutes beneath the open sky, waist-deep in extremely hot spa water made a heady impression, but the after-affect was fabulous...sapporo beer and a stop-off in a ramen-ya noodle bar were amongst my best memories...my friends knocked back piping hot noodles at such speed that tapiocca-like sweat droplets were visible!!
Oh, I yearn for that again...fresh, hot and not always healthy noodles I mean!