Shakira Cule Part 2

The news- emanating from Bogota and reproduced in today's Mundo Deportivo that Shakira has agreed to become a kind of roving ambassador for Barca as well as poor children without a voice can only be welcome.

So we are told Shakira's charitable Foundation Pies Descalzos – an educational trust for underprivileged children in her native Colombia- has formed a strategic alliance with Barca's  foundation, the Fundacio FCB which exists to promote the professed values of the club – solidarity, effort, companionship, friendship, sacrifice, and tolerance. The two foundations are set to cooperate in developing two educational  centres for poor kids- where no doubt song and sport will be important parts of the school curriculum – in Colombia and the US.

It makes a change from deals with Qatar and will probably prove more popular with cules. But does it also take us nearer to a possible marriage between Shakira and you know who?  I do not dare mention the player's name for fear of distracting him at this crucial stage of the season.