'The Submarine is yellow'. I repeat 'The Submarine is yellow'
We only have a short journey today - about the distance to the village hall - but not back. There is a reason and the reason is the Estadio de la Ceramica. Everything has a History and that History tells us something about what is important to a people at the time and when the History was written. We are in Villarreal. It is next to Castellon. Imagine these two places were Washington [Tyne & Wear] and Sunderland. Sunderland. A fair sized city with a big football team that has had an indifferent time in recent decades - yes I know they got promoted this year, stick with me. Washington is a much smaller town. It has a team in the 10th tier of English football. Well Castellon has a team that has not been in the top flight since 1991 and barely there before. Meanwhile , since the year 2000 Villareal have emerged to be in the top tier of Spanish football and play in Europe a lot. Since the 1940s the Club has played in a yellow strip...