loyal resistance

The world's most expensive football transfer of all time too place today, at 222 million euros or just short of 200 million pounds at today's exchange rate, after PSG, owned by Qararis, activated Neymar's release clause from Barcelona . These release clauses were not meant to be activated!

They have always been fantasy figures, at least until today. The record more than doubled the previous one, the 89 million pounds or 105 million euros that was spent on Paul Pogba by Manchester United to prise him away from Juventus.

The big news today of course concerns what happened in Paris yesterday. Unlike the incident earlier this year in which the magazine publisher's were shot - without much sympathy from me to be honest, and certainly no empathy (at least towards those involved with the magazine) - this incident is likely to change the political mood in France and, hopefully, much of Europe.

In time I hope to write more about that but my first reactions are that there is plenty of blame to go around. In fact, pretty much everybody is to blame, apart from traditional Catholics and me!