Another world war? Not anytime soon

With all the saber-rattling going on in the Crimea with Russia effectively having rolled back the clock to 1968 by invading the eastern part of the Ukraine, a place with wonderfully exotic and dangerous sounding names that trip the literary tongue up – Sevastopol, Donetsk, Makeyerka, Kharkov, Kramatorsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk – Dnipri, Dnepropetrovsk F.C. incredibly recently got to the Europa League finals against Spain’s Sevilla.

Talk of different types of football, the nuclear football, is once again fashionable.