Today saw us warmly embrace the kindness of strangers.

A hat-trick of tours at three very different grounds; Spurs, West Ham and Leyton Orient.

Its not every day a person like me with absolutely no ability as a footballer sits in a Premiership dressing room but that ambition was realised at West Ham's Upton Park ground today.

Filled with hi-tech equipment including ice plunge pools and luxury lockers, the clubs bling-filled dressing facilities were top notch.

Similar treatment at Tottenham was another highlight with a Spur of the moment tour inside the stadium.

Exclusive acess-all-areas treatment from Leyton Orient with a guided tour from assistant manager Dean Smith followed.

Brisbane Road is a heady mixture of old and new, decay and progress.

After the unparalled hospitality of the trio there had to be one villain of the piece and that would be Arsenal.

Their burly security man in reception would not even let us in and we left no donation.

An East End to a hectic day with a beer at a pub called The Albion, home of Albion Manor FC in Hackney.

A Baggies dominated pub- a piece of the Black Country in the capital.