Wembley, Wembley, we´re the famous Luton Town and we won the Tin paint pot trophy at Wembley.

55,001 fans crowded into Wembley. 40,000 made the short trip from Bedfordshire, 15,000 from Humberside and one journeyed from Lower Bavaria via Munich Airport, Heathrow, Barton-Le-Clay, Greenfield, Flitwick and West Hampstead.

During the three day break I managed a good fill of Fish & Chips, plenty of great English beer, a really decent Curry and squeezed in my first Wembley trip in over ten years and first cup final since 1989.

The boys done well. 1-0 down, 2-1 up, heartbreak with two minutes to go at 2-2 before 3-2 in extra time. Scunny are 41 places above the Hatters in the league but the form-book was thrown out of the window as Luton more than matched their so called superiors for style, skill, passion and commitment. The BBC described it as arguably the best game of football played at the new Wembley and who am I to argue with that.

The euphoria quickly passes and on Saturday it´s back to the day job. Lincoln City away and another week closer to certain relegation to the 5th league for the first time in a hundred years. However, for the time being, who cares?

Well, it´s been a month since I got my arse in gear and typed some words of wisdom onto the old interweb. I am struggling a touch as this is being typed on a German keyboard. Zou probablz don´t have the first idea what the difference is but trust me, zou would be fayed if zou knew. Saying that, the abilitz to tzpe Göethe or Äpfel and Proßer (that´s me) makes it all worthwhile.



Which brings me to German as a language. After a five year break I restarted my German lessons this week. They say it´s like riding a bike, in which case it´s a bloody strange bike. My teacher said I had a good vocabulary but had a lot of bad habits. I was surprised that she knew me so well after only half an hour and during that time I didn´t fart once or pick my nose. Then she explained that my most obvious bad habits were grammatical. That came as a surprise and a bit of a bonus.

What did I learn? Firstly, I can count to twenty. Secondly, I can conjugate the verb Sein and Haben. Thirdly, I have a 33% hit-rate on the Die, Der and Das´s. Finally, I need to put more verbs at the end of sentences.

I have two lessons a week for the next couple of months. I hope as time goes by that I will start to write more and more of this in German and that this lovely new keyboard (attached to a quite wonderful MacBook) will help me with my ÖÄÜ´s and ßßßßßßßß´s.

Danke.