WHITE rabbits, white rabbits – pinch, punch, it’s the first day of World Cup month.
So is everybody excited? No? Me neither.
Just 19 days to go until the greatest sporting show on Earth and the absence of World Cup fever is striking.
If anybody is truly up for the tournament in Qatar, then I haven’t met them.
Many of the reasons are well-rehearsed – the corruption of the voting process, the human-rights abuses of the Qatari regime, the deaths of thousands of migrant workers involved in the construction of stadiums, the fact that LGBT people and unmarried couples are unwelcome.