LONDON -- After almost 40 years of reporting the beautiful game nothing should come as a surprise.
I've had my wallet taken by Romanian police (who do you report that to?), at the World Youth Championship in Malaysia I was accredited as Christ Davies (no extra perks though), I was invited to dinner in New York by an Italian-American at his uncle's restaurant (his uncle turned out to be the late John Gotti -- one of the few members of the family to die of natural causes someone remarked), I've seen riots, great games -- the lot. I thought I had seen it all.