Category: Sport

Wow. Barcelona are unbeaten in the Champions League this season, with a record 10 matches unbeaten, yet their poor league form means that they’ve sacked their manager Louis van Gaal. Some jobs are simply impossible.

The Culture, Media and Sports Committee has just reported back on a proposed London Olympic bid. The amount of deliberation that’s being made over what is likely to be a relatively small outlay at least initially, seems to be immense. Anyhow their response seems to be that we shouldn’t go ahead “at any cost”. Well…

Finally Arsenal get around to allowing you to purchase tickets online! Of course you have to pay �5 each for the privelidge for the rest of the year. Sellers market anyone? Other industries manage to save money by selling online, and not having telephone operators. Nothing like paying to beta-test their system. Still, if it…

We were all over them yesterday!

Somehow or other I’ve managed not to talk about Arsenal here! Let me right that wrong immediately. Quite simply the football is fantastic at the moment. Everyone knows they’ve broken loads of records – but here’s a link that helpfully lists them all for you!

Must admit that I jumped out of my seat on Saturday, when David Millar crossed the line ahead of the other 4 riders in his break. Nice one. Of course Armstrong is amazing in the mountains at the moment, but Virenque did well yesterday to take the stage. Roll on the Alps this week!

One of my favourite summer events is up and running again this year. I’m still annoyed at Channel 4’s jettisoning the event a couple of years ago, saying that that they could no longer cover it and cricket (this is the station that was putting out one-day cricket highlights at about one o’clock in the…

Well they deserved to. They played the most impressive football of the tournament, and beat the stronger teams. Germany had way too easy a ride through to the final. I do have a couple of problems with the World Cup at the moment (sorry Fifa World Cup): 1) The winners do not automatically qualify next…