I know, Dick: but my own view is, at too much cost to their integrity. There's something a bit facile about spreading money worldwide so that you have a supposedly London team managed by a Frenchman, with, if you're lucky, one Brit-born player & two more youngsters on the bench, playing in a stadium named for a mid-eastern oil·state ... just can't work up the enthusiasm. I know that even when I started supporting them 74 years ago, their mainstays were a Cornishman, Bastin; a Scot, James; & 2 Welshmen, Meredith & Bryn Jones. But even so ... It's just an in·the·gut feeling. Mind, I do enjoy watching them for the reasons you state, Dick; & I suppse I'd rather they won than not. But the real emotion, taste, balls, call it what you will, has just gone out of it for me.