Paella and Bovril

It is coming round to that time of year when I book my wee trip to Bonny Scotland for my annual fix of Scottish Football. Once a year is not really enough but traveling back n forth from Scotland is not a cheap, or as easy, as it once was! This dish up of paella and b comes from the 3 all draw with local rivals, Cowdenbeath. Enjoy! A regular complaint about the modern game is kick off time. Some clubs and divisions suffer more than others. During Barcelona's pre-season there was a game that didn't start until 10 o'clock at night, and so it was going to be a struggle for many fans to get home using public transport.  The same problem had arisen the previous year therefore the club and Barcelona's metro, train and bus company, TMB, collaborated to keep the system running late enabling fans to come to the game knowing they can get home cheaply. Having to add a taxi ride home to the end of your game compared to the 90 cents city wide travel ticket makes a big diffe...

Happy new year and welcome to 2014 with paella and bovril. After a wee winter break Spanish football is back and so is Messi. FC Barcelona is buzzing with the return of el Rey . This dish of P n B come from the Raith game against Dumbarton. The home side came out on top with a 2-1 victory. Enjoy Doesn't matter how hard you try to avoid it is guaranteed that the conversation will come around to football. Even in serious business meetings the talk of future company projections will be halted so they can all have their two pesetas worth of opinion on the previous night's game. For some reason they don't seem to know much about my Raith Rovers tuppence worth I have to put in, they are learning though! After the latest derby match with Espanyol a few of the my Barcelona business students were curious about Fife's local rivalries. After several attempts at pronouncing the Kingdom's finest football teams a strange question was asked "which team is the most viv...