Weekend Blues

Strange old weekend, once again all football was cancelled, I know it snowed a bit last week but it really wasn't anything to write home about and Hadley's park should have been able to cope! I think it was more strange with the fact BBC had some sport on it even if it were a poor mans Rugby. Sunday's two close but uninspiring games allowed Jonathan Edwards and Jerry
Guscott to once again castigate the poor skills in the Northern Hemisphere. I kind of like the fact they are using national television as a soap box, Davies appears at times suicidal that people haven't the basic skills he possessed. I get the feeling professionalism isn,t all it cracked up to be
in his eyes.

Good weekend for Chelsea and West Brom, Norwich out of it now and it is 2 from 3 unless Pompy get caught up in it. Fulham too are perilously close to the Championship abyss. Back to the Champions League this week, all talk of Chelsea-Barca and the folks at ITV have got it live. Could be a few freeview boxes pulling up with cramp though as United venture to the San Siro at the same time trying to overturn the1-0 deficit from Carrolls blunder at Old Trafford on the ITV2. I can't call the Chelsea game, think united will go out, Arsenal too although only after giving it a good go and Liverpool too will scrape through, they are a bit of a dark horse saving their best for Europe and their last two performances have a destiny about them.

F1 got underway and it all looks quite happy with the new regulations, it will be interesting what a normal climatic hour of qualifying will do. No one had to push too hard on Sunday am and how long will the engine rules stay in place after BAR so readily manipulated them.

Finally, good weekend for Tennis (yawn) and reasonable for Athletics, that hall in Madrid looks the part, the millennium dome has the promise to be a similar building for us, let it host these things, the capitals answer to the NEC.