Long Time, No Blog

For those of you who have been checking, you'll have noticed that I haven't blogged since, well ages ago! Sorry about that but I have been quite busy.

So here's a whistlestop of my sporting and musical thoughts:

1. The Premier League - yawn! Manchester United are by far and away the best side and are going to win with about 5 games to spare. Terrific! Bye bye Roberto Mancini. QPR are proving that money doesn't guarantee anything and Reading decided to stick with the players that took them up - error.
2. The Championship - no-one actually wants to go up it seems as all the sides at the top keep dropping points. It's a great league though as it's so unpredictable. Come on Brighton! If they go up (via the play-offs) they will come straight back down, but there you go. Blackburn Rovers - oh dear!
3. Cricket - England did really well in India (who are pretty poor) but came a bit unstuck against New Zealand. I've always liked New Zealand as a side - some great players but not enough of them. England need to blood some young batsmen and sharpish, but Australia shouldn't prove too tough to beat this summer (I know we're playing New Zealand too, but it's The Ashes!). The Aussie got what can only be described as a drubbing in India.
4. Work - the end. Don't want to talk about it!
5. Depeche Mode have a new album out called "Delta Machine" - it's really good!
6. Rex The Dog have a new single and video - watch below:

I will get back into the habit of blogging so have no fear! Lots of stuff to go on about...

Manchesters United and City Out Of Champions League

Is this really a disaster for English football?

It's certainly a disaster for each club's accountant(s), with millions of pounds in revenue disappearing in 90 minutes. It's great for London with Arsenal and Chelsea having made it through, but ironically it will be the Manchester clubs battling it out for the Premier league title in April/May.

Personally I think that the two Manchester clubs' elimination from the Champions League is a good thing for English football - maybe the game wise up up and get over itself a little. Football in this country has got far to big for its boots in my opinion ans something like this could actually be of benefit in the long run. Less revenue could mean that young English players are preferred to expensive foreign imports as the money won't be there to pay for them, and they will get the opportunity to play alongside the quality of player already here.

I have to say that other than the financial benefits of the Champions League that are an attractive prospect to any club, I can't actually stand the competition, so having less of it on TV is an added bonus for me.

Say What You See Sir Alex

Is he serious? He admits that Vidic handballed it but said that no-one could see it, but they should have got a a penalty for Owen falling over. He then says, and this is the bit that's unbelievable, he says that they don't get those sort of decisions in big games! I can only presume that age is getting the better of Sir Alex as they nearly always seem to get those decisions in big games, they just missed this one.

Football managers are a funny breed, but ultimately all the same. they see what they want to see.