I know this is a football blog but did you watch the tennis final yesterday?
What a fantastic display of skill, strength, athleticism and character by both the Spaniard and the Swiss.
And what a summer it has been for Spain. First European football champions and now Nadal winning at Wimbledon.
I'm more interested today in news from another European county, however. For it would seem the latest addition to our skulk of Foxes is one Aleksander Tunchev from Bulgaria.
(In case you are wondering, a skulk is the collective term for a group of Foxes. Don't ever say this blog is not an education in its own right!)
Meanwhile in other news, Chel$ea are set to have a little taste of Italy today and Real Madrid are still stalking the Portuguese wonderboy. Newcastle on the other hand are trying to fight off claims that international interest in them comes from a somewhat less appealing source elsewhere in the world.
Still a bit of controversy might shake things up.
Most things are better shaken than stirred I find
