Football should be synonymous with churned mud, no sand baked, with socks and woolly spike, no Speedos. So how come John Terry, his colleagues and their assistants are Wags spend as much time on the beach?

In Terry's case - like the case from his break to Abu Dhabi with his wife, Toni, earlier this month to testify - PR is a public holiday, a year of exposure. Terry and his ilk are celebrities, which means that their private lives belong to their gossip fans as their work is owned by the fans in the stadium of their barracks.The beach is where players go to play the little dramas that keep them visible marriage between games or after the end of the season, and their antics while sunning themselves are today's equivalent of the frenzy of the gods in Olympia Randy the classical myth, re-enacted to opulence of the Renaissance, when Titian painted Bacchus and Ariadne beautiful Botticelli Venus showed an insatiable looking forward to waking up in March for his post-coital snooze.

I've always been a hat person in my own mind, but in reality they are itching and my head warm and never as good as I imagined. On Saturday, my niece and nephew were in a horse show, so this hat, purchased at least 5 years and never worn (tags were still on: $ 9.99) seemed to be a must. It felt good and was a welcome protection from the sun during the brightest day. One step closer, perhaps, be a real person cap.