How good is it at last to be proud of an England Football Team? I have to say the work Gareth Southgate has done with the national team over the last few years has been impressive. Talking sport the last day of the in Pakistan tomorrow looks like it will be a tense affair, fingers crossed. Again the new management of the cricket team has encouraged players to blossom.

Sadly the Starlings last night was an anti-climax- they tended to come in small groups and dropped fairly quickly into the reed bed. I will try again this week.