Ray the Saint,

Apology accepted, and rest assured I'm sure many 'zoners' thoughts are with you regarding the bush fires in Australia.
It would be bad enough if it where a natural catastrophe, but it appears there are some sick souls out there.

I've a friend who's been living out in Oz for around 3 years now, he is located more towards the east coast, I'm hoping he and the family are ok.

Your golf chums are referring to a strange game where certain people are paid far too much money to kick a bag of air from one side of field to another. It's called 'football' some know it as 'soccer'.
I believe both American, and Australian 'Football' is different as their players tend to pick up the football. Surely then these games should be called 'handball'?

MU or Manchester United are a popular team, mostly with people who live no where near Manchester strangely. They seems to have a 'money no object' approach, and tend to win everything. I believe they are top of the premiership. As you can tell I'm not a follower of this football lark.
Fulham and Chelsea are 'London' teams. I do know Chelsea have just sacked their manager in the last few days. He still is expected to get £15M. Guess the 'credit crunch' doesn't apply to these people.

I feel we have gone way off topic..
So I shall end it here.

Cheers..
Paul Preston
(aka The Sonic Energy Authority)