Category: Sport

Just been watching the Champions’ League Draw on Sky Sports. You’ve never seen so many containers of balls in your life. I won’t begin to try to explain how they made something so simple so complicated. I still don’t quite understand red and blue groups – something to do with A-D being red and E-H…

There’s something wrotten in the state of Premiership websites. It seems that a number of them have been taken over by a company called Premium TV. Indeed their website claims that they run over 80% of Premiership and Football League websites, and that’s where the problem lies. I’m sure that they’re able to use the…

The BBC has won back the Premiership highlights from the season after this for three years. Well they can’t do a worse job than ITV have done. In fact ITV are going to be a bit short of football come the 2004/5 season since their Champions League is being reduced with the advent of Sky’s…

Armstrong did it. Well, after Saturday, it was no surprise. The green jersey was won and lost on the line, and overall the centenial Tour was the best in years and years. I still can’t get over the fact that I was able to watch the end of it on ITV live on a Sunday…

Well this year’s Tour has been superb, and it was all set up for this afternoon’s time trial with Jan Ullrich chasing a lead of Armstrong of just over 1 minute on Lance Armstrong. Ullrich crashed within the last few KM although he was never likely to take much out of Armstrong. At that point,…

I must admit to being truly fascinated by the ongoing televised Premiership football wranglings. Here’s where we stand at the moment. The premier league started off by breaking the rights into three groups: The Gold Package of 38 first choice games on Sundays at 4.00pm, The Silver package of 38 games on Mondays at 8.00pm,…

This year’s Tour is excellent. Armstrong is in his expected yellow, but it turns out that Jan Ullrich is second by just 15 seconds and only a week to go. And Alexandre Vinokourov from Kazakhstan is just 3 seconds further behind. Another big day in the Pyranees tomorrow, and there’s another Time Trial, where Ullrich…

What a superb day for the Tour today! I know it was a gloriously sunny day, but I spent all afternoon indoors watching Le Tour on TV. Now obviously the whole world has slipped into some kind of parallel dimension at the moment because ITV were showing live coverage of the race today with commentary…

It’s started once more, and bowl me over with a feather, but dear old ITV are doing coverage. OK there was some late night action last year, and most of the coverage is on ITV2, but we do get Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwin every night at the utterly reasonable 7.00pm. And on Sunday’s ITV1…

I’ve managed to avoid talking too much about Arsenal recently. It’s half-time just now, with Arsenal still drawing Middlesbrough 0-0 at the Riverside, while Man Utd are 2-1 up against Blackburn. The match on Wednesday night between the two was a tempestuous affair, and it was disappointing that we were unable to win it. Still…

It’s taken them long enough, and everyone’s scared about it, but they’ve done it. They’ve asked for it to be moved. I’m amazed that the Aussies haven’t already come to the same conclusion. And with New Zealand not wanting to play in Kenya, there’s some serious reorganisation on the cards.

Yesterday the players finally came out and told the ECB that they didn’t want to play their opening match in Zimbabwe. They spoke under the aegis of The Professional Cricketers Association. It really is dreadful that it came to this. An excellent couple of articles in today’s Guardian explain why the ECB, and the ICC…