You're going to. But, First column of 2023. Hello everybody. I wish all of you who listen here

I tune into the big interviews.

Those of you who love football,

many of you that take the time and the trouble,

often humorously, to interact with us on Twitter. Thank you all. I genuinely

wish that each of you has an uplifting healthy, happy fun, 2023.

We're all walking into the wind a little bit these days.

Many people in charge around the world are either making an

arse of it or deliberately increasing the gradient as we push our way up hill into the oncoming gusts of wind. Life is

harder work now than it's been for many many years for all of you, for all of us.

And therefore I fervently hope that you find inspiration and fun and creativity and well-being in 2023. Not all of us will, but that's my desire for you.

On the subject before I read this column about Spain's Copa del Rey.

Thank you again to ESPN for their permission for me to do that to you.

To you?

I think I meant for you.

We'll see, maybe it's a punishment.

But yes, before I start, I kind of hope that Zeltavigo win the cup this year and Iago Asbus scores a hat trick against whoever, wherever it's played.

Why?

For Simon Hanley.

Most of you I think, because so many of you reacted on Twitter.

Most of you know that my friend, Simon Hanley, who had been for a very brief time fighting stage four cancer and who had I think a decent

expectation of another two or three years if his treatments went well, died on his

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