I always find it fascinating how quickly the balloonful of excitement at reaching the playoffs is *****ed by the disappointment of the second semi-final.
Try arriving back at Stansted on Sunday evening. It once took 3 hours from touchdown to get to the carpark. Our luggage had been on the carousel so long that our flight details had disappeared from the screens. Never again.
Then why have we in England been run by the Scottish mafia for the last 13 years?Both Prime Ministers and every important cabinet post has been a Scot.
It was down to Clinton who 'encouraged' the mortgage banks to lend to people who couldn't afford the repayments. The problem for us is that Brown had spent and borrowed so much that we cannot ride out the economic storms.