So, Blans (Blog Fans), are you sitting comfortably? OK, where shall we begin? That is obviously a rhetorical question, as I can't hear you, and this is written in 'real time' so even if I could hear you, I've already finished typing this entry. Anyway, enough Cybabble (Cyber Babble).....

Things were going well. I was a 27 year old man, living in Leeds, with money in the bank, a beautiful girlfriend, company car, stable job (albeit incredibly dull!), great friends and family, and, of course, my health. I had graduated university with a degree in Football, Money Laundering and David Beckham Studies (yes, it IS a real degree) a few years earlier and had settled in the Capital Of The North.....Leeds.

I had dreams that were yet to be thought of let alone lived-out! I was young and had the world at my feet!

More to come soon.....!