On this blog, service for the next 6 weeks or so will be intermittent and frankly a little cursory, as our spectacular new World Cup project is prepared.
Our spectacular project, you were wondering? Yes, it's too complicated for my little brain, so I've let my technogimp out of his rathole for the duration. Take a bow, lad, and get back to your housework. Yes you do have to wear that, and I don't care how cold it is. Oooh, goosebumps.
There will be a wonderful new website with a blog section for games and news updates, a history section full of fascinating stories about the countries taking part, and a statistical section full of squads, results, tables and the kind of aimless data parsing I love and you've learned to endure. You're all invited, obviously, it really wouldn't be the same without you.
Here's a little titbit to get you going - in all the world, which two club teams have the most representatives in the 32 World Cup squads? Chelsea and Arsenal, with a whopping 17 and 15 players respectively. That is of course an average of exactly 1 Arsenal or Chelsea player for every country in the competition. Let's hope they don't all travel on the same plane at any time. On the other hand, if they did, and if the worst did happen, it could make a new reality TV series - a mixture of Lost, Match of the Day and Celebrity Love Island. Sol Campbell, at least, would be much happier, and would make a lovely Juliet to John Terry's Romeo.
Although scoring in last night's Champions League Final will hopefully have perked him up a bit, even if it didn't go their way in the end. Cue the usual verbal dyspepsia from Wenger, this time backed up by Henry, who one might traditionally associate with rather better digestion. I thought Barcelona were the better team, and their first goal was (marginally) not offside.
And the Bristol team with the most players at the World Cup? That would be well-known worldshakers Bristol City, with 1 player (Luke Wilkshire for Australia). Not a huge roster, but it is an infinite number of times more than Rovers have.
I'll let you know when the new site is ready to be seen by the great unwashed, but until then you'll just have to be patient. Watch this space.