Ralphie: you must have missed the threads/tweets/blogs/posts/poems on sports, where, e.g., I've argued that our club football should be REGULATED back to how it was - mostly locals in MEANINGFUL competition; or in verse - http://walkaboutsverse.webs.com/#98.

And as for "Particularly as you are an Australian."...no - an English repat, who has read widely from the anthology of English verse, keeps fit with lawn tennis, plays an English flute to introduce English hymns and folk-songs, enjoys choral evensongs, was born the day Alf Ramsey's English team won the World Cup, and, to boot, whose staple diet is pottages!