It has largely been a summer of discontent for the many Blues who take to Twitter to voice their displeasure at what has been perceived as a lack of activity in the transfer market. With the expected departure of Leroy Sané , who headed back to Germany to join Bayern, and the move to pastures new for club legend David Silva , many expected the club to go big and hard in the transfer window this summer, with an alleged £300 million war chest being muted by some. The club began brightly, securing the captures of Ferran Torres and Nathan Aké within days of each other. Then there was the long running and very public courtship with arguably the world's best player, Lionel Messi , which left fans salivating with expectation. Despite the mercurial Argentinian making it clear he wanted to end his long-term marriage to Barcelona and head for pastures new, a likely reunion with Pep, internal politics and contract wrangles mean the end result is he will now see out his final year at the Cam...
Thought it was about time I started blogging again, just to keep my mind active and give myself a creative output from the regular churn of work. Unlike many, I have continued to work all through the recent Covid-19 crisis. In fact, as a direct result I have found my workload actually increasing massively, which when combined with working from home has led to a blur between work time and private time. As such, I made an active effort to define clear boundaries, both in terms of how I organised my work space and also how I organised my day, ensuring I scheduled in time away from the computer and also finished at an agreed time each evening. Part of the process has seen me also trying to get back into my fitness, although sadly any level of fitness I had historically was long gone from years of eating crap, doing very little, and drinking too much. Still, I've embraced the challenge, and with the steps taken above to ensure time for myself, have ensured I've got out in the fre...