president lula also said he found it inexplicable that there would be 900 us economic sanctions on venezuela, simply, as he put it, because the us didn t like venezuela. well, again, critics would say that isn t the reason behind the sanctions, but because of those lack of free and fair elections. for his part, president maduro said that he would be trying to organise the countries of south america into a bloc to criticise and call for an end to those sanctions looking obviously at the left wing nations, like brazil, like argentina, bolivia and colombia. but it s hard to say that those countries together would have sufficient clout to bring an end to those sanctions imposed by washington. now the town of luton, just north of london. it has been painted orange after its football club gained promotion to the premier league via the playoffs on saturday. 0ur correspondent nicky schiller was at