OK, quick inventory check.

Three hundred quid. Check.
Passports. Check.
eTickets for the flight. Check.
Called to get a taxi from the airport to the B&B. Check.

Get ready, Manchester. In just over four days, I'll be back in England for the first time in four years. So you better have a World Cup 2006 mug for sale, plenty of Cadbury's chocolate and bags of Smoky Bacon Crisps at the ready, and steak and kidney pie when I want it. Because I'm back, if only for a week, and by the GODS I've missed that steak and kidney pie.

COME ON!!!

Listen : This Is England - The Clash ... British Colonialism And The BBC - Chumbawumba ... World In Motion - NewOrder & The England 1990 World Cup Squad.