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I'm in the Holiday Inn just beside Boligna airport and the Liverpool v Real Madrid game is on Italian Sky Sport 1, and they have no commentary. The only sound is the crowd. It is fucking superb. No failed manager telling us why he can't undestand why Benitez is sooooo stupid, or a once half decent mid-table footballer trying to make a living by making controversial statements for fear of boring us into a coma and thus making a tit of himself. I'm really enjoying this. Although the fact the final score is 4-0 to us is somewhat helping my enjoyment.

Komodo dragons maul man to death Two Komodo dragons have mauled a fruit picker to death in eastern Indonesia, in the latest attack on humans by the world's largest lizard. Police Sergeant Kosmas Jalang said Muhamad Anwar, 31, was attacked on Komodo, one of four islands where the giant reptile is found in the wild, minutes after he fell out of a sugar-apple tree yesterday. He was bleeding badly from bites to his hands, body, legs and neck after two lizards, waiting below, attacked him, according to a neighbour, Theresia Tawa. He died at a clinic on the neighbouring island of Flores soon after. Attacks on humans by Komodo dragons, said to number fewer than 4,000 in the wild, are rare, but seem to have increased in recent years. An eight-year-old boy was killed in 2007 in the first recorded deadly attack on a human by one of the endangered lizards in 30 years. A park ranger narrowly survived after one of the animals entered his hut last month and started biting his hands and legs. There have been several other attacks in recent months, according to Metro TV. The reptiles, which can grow up to 3 metres (10ft) long and weigh as much as 70kg (150lb), have shark-like serrated teeth. Its saliva contains roughly 50 different known bacteria strains, so infection is a risk. Komodos can be found in the wild on the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Padar and Rinca. Small numbers can also be found on Flores.