You see it's like this

Friday night my car was vandalised. Somebody ripped the aerial off the roof, scratched the paintwork and had a go at the mirror. As we sort of live in the country and no-one uses the route past our house at that time of night, it narrows the the field down to a few suspects. Besides, in order to get at the car you have to leave the road and footpath where the casual passer-by would walk. Most likely teenagers, having had a couple of beers or so and maybe with a grudge to bear with the ingles. Almost certainly madridistas.

El Depor handed Madrid a good seeing to last night, winning 2-0 at the Riazor. Amusing report here. Only the determined anti-madridistas can summon up such a display against Madrid, as did my own Bilbao a couple of weeks ago. Oh, and Madrid were crap.
Fingers crossed for Liverpool against Chelsea.

anti what?

To outsiders, among whose number I still count myself despite living in Madrid for nearly 15 years, I ought to explain the term anti-madridista. It's not about being anti-madrid, which I'm not incidentally - I mean god how sad would that be? Anti-madridista means hating Real Madrid, and I do. Why? Well over the time I maintain these pages, I hope to shed some light on this phenomenon - rest assured I'm not alone.

Nice to see the Bushwit's latest attempt at articulating a few sentences coming apart at the seams again on the morning's news. Maybe he skipped the class on register at high school, because it might just be confusing to the listener when talking about power in world politics at the highest level to say "I'm really enjoying our relationship" (with Tony Blair). Strangely, this had been cut out of the repeat half an hour later.