It's a Final Day.

It's another Saturday afternoon, but it is not really as there are important games to be played. Twickenham host the Aviva Premiership final, the Guinness Pro14 final in the Aviva Stadium, Dublin and in France their league final is also taking place. Add to that the million pound game at Wembley between Aston Villa and Fulham for the right to play in our own premier football league.

But that is not it. In faraway Kiev, in the Ukraine, the European Champions Final will take place with Real Madrid and Liverpool fighting it out to get their hands on the trophy and to take it back to their rapturous fans. It will be a great evening, but here is the rub. Kiev may be on my wish of places to go, but it is one helluva distance from Western Europe. Then we hear of flights cancelled so that some Liverpool fans will not get there in time or not at all. Apparently hotel managers have ratcheted up the cost of their rooms to astronomical highs. The mayor, Vitality Klitschko when confronted by this has suggested that residents ‘throw open their homes’ for one or two nights for the fans. Let's hope that it happens. Also I hope that it is a great game, fitting for a final and that the game, the city of Kiev, and the celebrations afterwards occur without a problem. I suspect that Putin’s non-democratic Russia will have some say. Will they want disorder to shame Ukraine or do they want a trouble free event with their focus on the World Cup in July. I hope that it will all be peaceful.

At the same time the world is going through history like a sharp sword through jelly and Ireland is taking another historic event in its stride with women having the right to have abortions. I listened with interest to Mary Lou MacDonald, leader of Sinn Fein be interviewed and I was impressed. She speaks well for Ireland and women. As a male person I feel that it would be incorrect for me to vote on this as I consider it should be ‘a female only’ matter. It is their body they are personally responsible for. At the same time Northern Ireland remains out of date with their views on abortion, and same sex marriage. They are totally out of kilter with the rest of the United Kingdom.

I hope that this day will end well. Before then I will be in The Stray Sod, in La Fuente, Alicante enjoying the Guinness, the company and the game. What else is there to do on a Saturday afternoon?