Well now, your first football, bloodial moment for a long time.

I hope you're watching, Women's Champions League Final, at the Avalage Stadium in Lisbon, Arsenal won Barcelona, no.

Secondly, if you were not watching, let me reassure you unequivocally, the better team won.

The better team on the day, maybe not the more garlanded team, maybe not the team containing the more special players and certainly not the favourites.

But one which, long before they won the Cup won my admiration

because albeit that the champions of Arsenal didn't perform particularly well

and were articulate and loquacious about that afterwards.

There was any finger pointing, there didn't you blame apportioning, there really weren't any protests.

They're key footballers and their coach, Perra Romeo, said we had a bad day. We didn't show our best side.

Over and above that, what was really important was there was a brilliance to arsenal's game plan

a brilliance in terms of how well they'd studied football club barcelona and how well they

implemented their game plan so for example their scotch captain kim little said that all during

this week they'd put into practice everything they'd learned about Barcelona in what's called Shadow Play.

Now, I remember when Shadow Play first began to be talked about in coaching and analytical terms in the UK.

As ever, there were a lot of dinosaurs who simply laughed at it.