Right, I thought, there is nothing for it. We were under starters orders for the climactic event of the tournament, and in just a few seconds we would be off.
As they pounded the Iranian nuclear facilities yesterday, the Israelis were finally doing what so many Western leaders had expected they would do for years, if not decades.
If this goes on much longer, I really think the great moderate mass of the British public will finally explode with irritation.
This is not meant to be communist Albania. This is not Ceausescu's Roma…
There is only one reason why Britain has been able to beat the EU and do this early deal and that - as Trump rightly said - is Brexit, says BORIS JOHNSON.
Oh, it's a disaster, they say. To be frank, I have averted my eyes from the full horror of the local election results as they have dribbled in over the day, but we all know the gist.
Go on, admit it. You can't do without it. Every morning - before we are even out of bed - we scrabble for the mobile. Our fingers grope for the little green icon, a speech bubble enclosing a phone.
With trembling fingers I reached into the chilled display. It felt like hours that I had been scouring the shelves in the vast Texan supermarket, with aisles as long as Westminster Abbey.