Football transfer rumours: Mark Hughes to Hull City?

1963: JFK assassinated 1997: Diana killed in Paris underpass 2002: 101-year-old woman dies just over a week before Bindaree wins Grand National 2010: Man feels bit of twinge in leg, oof, ooh, ooyah, boy that's tight, hope I'll still be able to underperform at this year's major international tournament like I did in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006, aw snap! Nothing ever prepares you for the grief, does it. Like a hammer blow. So as you'd expect, ladies and gentlemen, normal service has been suspended. This is guardian.co.uk from London. Please be upstanding for the national anthem. Hold on. The tragic events surrounding a second, third or possibly 21st-choice winger obviously cast a long shadow over the Mill, so today there will be no lame jokes (stop it) and instead there will be solemn music, like what there was on Soviet telly when all those presidents carked it in the early 80s. Mark Hughes is the favourite to replace Amazing Mid-Life Crisis Man at Hull City , ahead of Gary Megson, Iain Dowie, Paul Jewell and Sean O'Driscoll. Manchester City still hope to persuade Gianluigi Buffon to leave Juventus. Real Madrid will concentrate all their efforts this summer on purchasing Wayne Rooney from Manchester United. Tottenham will spend £6.5m on Internacional midfielder Sandro . Portsmouth want Avram Grant to stay as manager next year, but he's not so keen. And Leeds fancy Sheffield United's Nick Montgomery . Please keep clicking on the solemn music, because that's all there will be until we decide to show a particularly tranquil episode of Antiques Roadshow in three or four weeks' time.