I started off with a bit of my own childhood because I wanted to rewrite my own life and see how it owuld turn out. I soon realised this would not work. If you 8 year old woke up and said he had come back from the future a straitjacket would soon follow.

I have always wanted to be a full time author. Of course, that statement is relative. I didn’t want to be an author as a kid for instance. In fact the only time I ever professed an ambition to do any particular job was at 11 when I wanted to be a footballer.

Alex Ferguson retiring – who ever thought it? And all done and dusted in days. The Emperor is dead. Long live the Emperor. (Eric was of course the King.) So today we get the trophy back and it is also it is Fergie’s Swansea song at OT. Congratulations too to Wigan fans, hard luck to City fans and come on Leicester.