A Bank Holiday. Starring Serie A, Tidying Up, Sunday Supplements and Bubble and Squeak

Hello there. Hope you're feeling well today.

Easter Monday then. And surprisingly it was a bright day. No surprises though for regular readers then that whilst wife spent the morning visiting a friend and daughter did some more exam revision I was staying in watching football. Though to be fair was doing some paperwork/tidying up as well.

After all was it not my wife who only the day before was moaning about the amount of programmes on the DVR hard drive? Since I wasn't working that day perhaps electronic spring cleaning was in order.

Tidying up and watching football. Who says men can't multitask?

I also made the decision just to watch Serie A games today. The oldest dated 31 March. So it did seem reasonable given opportunity had knocked.

So the first game was Bologna Sassuolo . Important for Bologna given their fight against relegation.

Meanwhile I needed to clear my bulging wallet.

Don't be fooled, More receipts than money!

It was seemingly a dull match until a penalty was awarded to the home team. Their normal penalty taker Eric Polgar was on the subs bench. What happens? He gets brought on! Thankfully for him he scores. Goodness only knows how he would've walked the streets of Bologna if the ball hadn't gone into the back of the net.

In injury time Sassuolo equalise. 1-1 you might think it will remain but no. Another sub equalises with a header from a corner. 2-1 Bologna is how it finished. And for the neutral like me it was a good game.

Second match then Inter Milan vs Lazio. Now trust me on this. Italians know instinctively what constitutes style and what doesn't. But there are moments where the people who make the decisions fall ill and go mad. This is the only logical explanation for why the match officials were dressed in a colour best described as motorway maintenance. With their luminous tops and black shorts they looked like marker pens on legs

Meanwhile I'm also going through the weekend paper supplements I've been keeping for months. Including one for the Mail on Sunday! It was offered to me by someone from work? Why did I accept? Was it Caroline Flack telling us that she's proud to be a cougar? No.

Is it to read something Piers Morgan has written  (and I use the term loosely) ? No.

It's their Slimming World supplement. I'm thinking I need to slim and it'll help me. Of course being from the Mail group it doesn't. After all here's the thing. Why is it ingredients for recipes to help you slim always include things that are not easily obtainable from your local store. Baby spinach. Butternut squash. I mean come on!

Lazio score the only goal of the game with a header from a man who goes under the name of Malkovitch-Savage....as you do. It was the only goal of the game and the first Lazio victory away to Inter for many years. Their man of the match was their goalkeeper Handovic who kept it that way.

I find the bookmark ruler daughter gave me for my birthday. No 1 Dad it says. Reminds me when many years ago she asked me for a ruler. "Queen Elizabeth the first" was my reply.

She wasn't impressed. I thought it was funny.

There's a Spring catalogue for Debenhams. Boy that's hard to read now.

Sampdoria A C Milan and the officials here are wearing the other colour in the luminous canon. Bright pink. The other notable colour was the red face of the  A C Milan goalkeeper who passed the ball straight to the rushing Sampdoria player De Frel who scored. That was the only goal of the game.

A C Milan are back for the final game as is the wife. She wants to cook Bubble and Squeak. I've no problem with that. We have a visitor. A wasp. Both wife and daughter are frightened. There seems to be a genetic thing of the stronger the woman the more scared she is of small animals.

Wife grabs a insect thing in the shape of a tennis racket to electrocute them to death. I've got a Sunday supplement with a Jason Issacs interview. Jason kills him. When another wasp enters I just get on with it and with Mr Issacs' help kill that one as well.

Milan's opponents are Udinese and all seems well. They score and are in control of the game even when their goalkeeper is substituted due to injury. The food arrives. It's lovely and filling. Decide to watch the first half, have a siesta and then go for the second

Lunch

I wake up. Still match seems to be going Milan's way. That is until from a cross Lasagna , a player of many layers, equalises for Udinese. He actually had the chance to win subsequently but didn't have the beef to see it through.

Relaxing - Excuse the hairy leg!

Four Serie A matches in one day. Now that's the way to spend a bank holiday (with added tidying up of course).

Until the next time.