I admit it what a strange message this is and who better than me to deliver that.

An apology for not sending you content you didn't know you were going to get.

Here's the sketch.

When I did a little video interview from the Burnabelle

after Roman had beat Bruchia Dortmund, having played very badly but then scored five wonderful goals.

Smart guys at

backpage press martin gregg and Neil white who are behind almost all good things in my life

said people enjoyed that people fed back on that sufficiently that we should do that more regularly

so i said hey ho let's do it so So a weekly digest of Spanish football in video message form

was going to drop into your inbox, but not this weekend.

We had discussed Martin, Neil and I,

talking about the Barcelona Derby,

talking about Real Sociedad's visit to Sevilla

and culminating in the San Mama's match where athletic host betis.

But I have no appetite to talk about the vagaries of off-sides or wonderful goals this weekend when Spain has suffered an absolutely abysmal catastrophe,

one which has been coped with very, very badly indeed by the authorities and one which is still going on.

It's the flooding and the rain. It's called in Spain, Dana, D-A-N-A.

It's an acronym for basically when hot currents and cold currents mix over the Mediterranean

and particularly in the Levanti Delta, which is the region where Valencia and Villarreal meet,

it's quite common that there's heavy, heavy rain, but the devastation, the death, the suffering,

and potentially still a couple of thousand people missing, a really, really poor response by the authorities means that

we are in the midst of something absolutely atrocious and it's not the weekend when I feel

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