WOULD staying in, or going out of, Europe really make a difference?

And has the above sentence meant several people have already flicked over the page to read something about grit being a big problem on side streets.

The problem with Europe is that most people don’t really understand anything about it.

I have to admit I am a little confused myself, and read loads of nonsense on a daily basis.

In what has been a mind-numbingly boring week for news all round, ‘Europe’ was top of the agenda.

Maybe they did this on purpose.

It is January. It is cold and almost everything is going bust.

The best thing we can do is stick Europe down our throats for a few days.

Hopefully, people will be so bored with life in general that they won’t bother to look up what this whole Europe debate is about.

People will be so consumed with how to pay that December gas bill that they will forget there is this complex issue that needs sorting.

The best thing is try to do what the PM did this week – kind of keep things slightly vague.

It makes people think that maybe we are kind of looking into it, but not really doing much else.

The only thing that livened anything up was that Chelsea player kicking the ball out from underneath that ball boy…or should I say ball man.

He was more of ball man than a ball boy.

There is no way that fellow can class himself as a ball boy.

Try that at Pleasington on a Sunday morning and see what happens.

He was basically wasting time and he knew it.

I am not condoning what the Chelsea player did, in fact, no… If I was playing in a cup semi-final and the Dalai Lama sat on the ball and wasted my precious time – I would get the ball my any means necessary.

Sorry Mr Lama.