Daphne, this should have come with a put-your-mug-down warning.

Aldo Scerri was not just “a waterpolo player” but a thug waterpolo player, part of the Valletta team of the 1980s that enjoyed the violent part of the game as much as actually playing.

And their supporters loved it.

Many other readers must remember the many instances of supporter violence at that time.

If I remember correctly he played for San Giljan in the latter part of his career and was again a supporters’ hero, who brought fighting to the pools.

Rainer seems to be a junior version of his dad.

Institutionalised sleeze.

That’s hardly the point, is it – her appointment would have been just as corrupt and abusive had she been Maltese.

The fact that she is Russian merely makes it absurd.

Intant kellha tkun barranija u oltre min hekk barra mil Unjoni Ewropea li kienet kapaci ghal dan il post.

Government by corruption. Not even in 25 years of Nationalist government did we ever see this level of dishonesty.