If you’re sitting at a beachside bar somewhere nice and warm, supping a glass of cold stuff, the chances are that if you loiter long enough someone will produce a game of Connect Four.
Well, rather like my reaction to the scoring sequence at Carrow Road, I was thoroughly hacked off by losing to Leicester on Saturday evening, had begun to come to terms with it yesterday morning… and then the sixth-round draw was made and I was back to being annoyed.
On Saturday night I was visited by a couple of ghostly figures. At first I assumed it was Ken Bates and Neil Warnock making their way home at the end of the day that those two decided to combine their dark forces at Leeds United.
Hunger is the most priceless commodity for Premier League success.
This weekend Formula One visits one of my favourite countries in the world for the first time. Sadly it is now seven years since I spent six weeks travelling around to every corner of India – a place as magical, entrancing and complex as you will find.
Where is it all going to end? A season that started with a mixture of hope and trepidation just seems to be going from one high to another at the moment, and this week City have the chance to put themselves one game away from a Wembley appearance.