Sunday 25.04.2010, Barcelona The 2009-10 vets season has culminated in a quite spectacular final week. On Sunday, we have the L.O.B. Cup Final against Aloyisians. But this weekend, we had the little matter of our football tour to Barcelona.   The Icelandic volcano situation meant that with less than 24 hours till our flights, we were still unsure if we would actually be taking off. So we still hadn't sorted out hotels - or more importantly - tickets to the Nou Camp. But Ryanair then confirmed their flights were all back to normal again, so at around 3.00 a.m. on Saturday we all set off for Stansted.   First stop in Barcelona was large amounts of Magners & Guinness at an an Irish pub while we watched the Spurs v Man. Utd match. Gary Munnelly managed to get swindled out of £100 at half time by the local gypo's while the rest of us refuelled at the Burger King. Magners, Guinness, Irish Pub, Burger King, Spurs v Utd, ---- all very Spanish.   So then it was off to the Nou Camp for Barca v Jerez. Whatever you might have heard about it, it is even more spectacular in the flesh. But it then went from from Lionel Messi to very messy. Many bars, many drinks many stories.   In the morning we drove to Puig Reig for our vets match with the local team. Most of the players were still paralytic from the night before when the game kicked off. None more so than Del O'Brien who had volunteered to go in goal. Dels handling was so bad, it looked like he was trying to catch a bar of soap - not a football. But the rest of us were not much more coordinated. We somehow managed to score 3 brilliant goals & played some lovely football, but let in some really soft goals & lost 4-3,   The rest of the day & night was almost too fantastic to describe. The hospitality of the folk of Puig Reig was something none of us will ever forget. Once again we drank ourselves into a stupor until the early hours with our new Spanish friends. But not one of us were allowed to spend a single Euro. Even the mechanic who they called to come down to break into Marvin's car as he had locked his keys inside wouldn't let us pay him.   The tour party was.........   Clink Anglo, Charlie Kane, Gavin Jones, Chris Ede, Keith Coton, Del O'Brien, Marvin & Neville Blake, Gary Munnelly, Patrick Brown, Tony Givnan, Darren Morris & Paul Jackson.   Not the best preparation for our final next week. But none of us will surely ever forget it. Clint Anglo Vets Manager