The Fiver | Turning up at Shortbread McFiver's house armed with a tape measure

In today’s Fiver: Height issues, Jupp Heynckes’s German shepherd and twang news

The Fiver has a busted nose and a black eye. Don’t feel too sorry for it, though. Let’s be honest, it should have known better than to turn up at Shortbread McFiver’s house armed with a tape measure earlier today, wearing the kind of smug grin that in retrospect probably did invite the angry response it received. For all the Fiver’s protests that it had only made the journey for scientific reasons, it probably should have allowed its Scottish cousin to go through the grieving process in full before trying to put Professor Strachan’s theories about genetics to the test. It completely forgot that emotions would still be raw in the Shortbread McFiver household, given that it was less than 24 hours since Scotland’s adorable little munchkins discovered that they were too short to be let on the World Cup ride. One to revisit at a later date, then. Once the Fiver can see out of both eyes again.

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