April 21st, 2021. 38th day of isolation.

The news that everyone (almost) is talking about is the proposed European Super League which would contain six of the English Premier League. The “spat” appears to be over after only 48 hours but the ramifications seem to be more far reaching, thanks to the fan base of each club. There are various suggestions of punishment for those six teams ranging from being banned from domestic cup competitions to the banning of players from those teams from representing England. The one I like most is the banning of England representation as (a) this would give opportunities to players from lower clubs and (b) would mean those banned players may look for other “lower” clubs to play for. Can you imagine Marcus Rashford signing for Accrington Stanley, or (dream on) Hull City. My preferred punishment would be (even though they have withdrawn from the scheme) to deduct 20 points from each team now anyway. That would result in the following revised Premiership positions,

Manchester City……6th

Manchester United……9th

Chelsea……15th

Liverpool…..18th=

Tottenham…..18th=

Arsenal…..Relegation zone

So only one of those would be battling for a European place and at least four would be battling to stay in the premiership. Can you imagine Arsenal and Tottenham in the Championship. How exciting that would be! And a reality check for both fans and players. I’ve always dreamed of seeing, say, Rotherham or Crewe in the Premiership. It won’t happen of course.

Sally was 45 on Monday. My dear daughter is catching me up but apart from the numbers she, thankfully, doesn’t change a bit. It is a while now since we have seen her but things are on the up. Jenny and I are now into our third week of “two jabs” and apart from feeling smug, we are exactly the same.

WE have had two kitchen fitters come to our house to help with designing our new kitchen. The first young man had lots of ideas and was quite impressive. The second, not so much. We now await an appointment at their respective showrooms to choose colours, worktops and more.

I was hoping to see Ronnie play football on Sunday but there had been a rule imposed restricting supporters to 1 per child. I decide to give it a miss as I didn’t want to upset David’s “Ex” by breaking the rules. Wouldn’t you know it though, that Ronnie had a great game, apparently, and scored a headed goal.

My jigsaw is a real challenge now and I am finding about 5 black pieces each day that fit. I am having to do it by shapes.

In the absence of any rain at the moment, I am watering the plants each day. I’ll go now as Jenny is cleaning the living room around me.

We went to “babysit” the grandchildren tonight and then take them to swimming training at their swimming club. David went for his weekly run with his running club. Melanie’s car was not there so she will have walked, like last week.