Another long but enjoyable week which has seen me on the side of a hill in Swaledale and out to the East coast to visit Whitby and Scarborough.  So no time for the important things like blogging.  But the weekend is nearly here and a window of opportnity is upon me.

Firstly I had no time even to gloat over the thrashing that Pompey handed out to Reading last weekend - 7 goals and a hattrick for Benjani.  Mind you with Calamity back to his "best form" we needed to score 7 to have a chance.  At least we are back in the top 6 - long may it last.

Then on Monday was the come back of the season so far with Spurs rescuing a point and I suspect their managers career with 3 late goals to earn a point at home  against the Villa.

Next there was the midweek Champions League - congratulations to all British teams with the exception on Liverpool who managed to lose at home against a French team for the first time in their history. 

But what about the antics at Celtic.  Having received a slight tap from an over excited supporter, Milan's Brazilian keeper Dida decided to give chase.  That is to give chase for a a few yards until he threw himself to the ground.  Either out of breath or possibly cynically thinking that if he went down injured then the referee might abandon the game and get Milan out of jail?  Surely not.  Whatever his reasons, it was embarrassing to watch, expecially as having thrown himself down in such dramatic fashion he then had himself stretchered off. 

The fan has rightly been banned for life - lets hope that Dida receives a similar penalty and an Equity card in time for the Christmas panto season.  A wise man recently said that the Premiership footballers would not last 10 minutes in a  rugby league match.  Dida wouldn't last 10 seconds, although it would be fun to watch!

Finally a word about the boy Hamilton.  In what must be one of the most controversial F1 World Championships on record he has survived another scare and escaped a points deduction after some erratic driving at the weekend.  Surprisingly his team "mate" failed to leap to his defence and is still trying to convince people that the young Brit has been favoured by McCLaren.  It must really suck when you realise that somebody is better than you and you don't have the backbone to fight back.  Let's hope that Lewis wraps it all up this weekend.

Oh and one more thing - England actually won a ODI yesterday apparently by 65 runs.  Wonders will never cease!