Well, the die is cast! It remains very cold, with a biting wind, but a morning visit to C & A saw JCFC equipped with woolly gloves and an extra sweater. Wuppertal it shall be. After all, it is hard to resist the chance to see a referee named after an item of footwear. A figure to rank alongside tennis player Jack Sock, Slipper of the Yard, Evelyn Waugh's wonderful creation William Boot (or Jesse of that ilk for our Nottinghamshire friends) fifties man-about-town Algernon Winkle-Picker and exotic dancer Mandy Cornplaster. OK, the last two might be products of JCFC's fevered imagination - that's what comes of spending too long in freezing football grounds.