A frenzy of football lately, EPL, Six nations rugby all culminating in the 'greatest show on earth'! No P.T Barnum isn't in town; its the circus that is Superbowl XLVI (I'll pause if you need to remember your roman numerals).
As a spectator sport it's about as interesting a basketball, baseball, golf...basically anything America is half decent at. If a sport requires mammouth amounts of entertainment and distractions then surely there's something intrinsically wrong with it to begin with!
Still you can always make sure the half-time entertainment will be worth staying up late through hours of tedium....er...maybe not this year. I thought it was sweet of the NFL commission to show their diversity and shuffle old Madge onto the stage.
To another oval ball shaped sport of which I know little about - rugby union. Six nations has come around again and with the national football side England are far more interesting off the pitch than on it.
They perform with similarity too; over-hyped, scrappy win and envitably not much to show at the end of it. Perhaps they should sack the captain, reinstate him, sack him again and then have the manager undermine the entire governing body???
Best piece of advice I can give is find the best price you can get on Les Blues and go for it! Enough said.
Back to proper football now.
Transfer window deadline day has been and gone without any of the excitment of last January. As usual most of the important moves were done and dusted well beforehand with only the R's doing any significant business.
Despite this the impact of some of the newbies has been nothing short of explosive! Mr Balotelli might be a bit concerned that Djibril Cisse may be seeking to claim his mantle of mercurial nut job. A debut goal midweek followed by a stupid red card that cost his team any hope of winning...maybe its got something to do with the tyre skid haircut?
Oi! Did you drive over my head?
Another Cisse made the headlines for the right reasons this time. With Senegal making an early exit from the African Cup of Nations this week Alan Pardew was able to unlease his new Demba-demba strike force.
While we're all aware of the exploits of Demba Ba this season his national team mate Papiss Cisse was a bit of an unknow quantity until his lashed an unstoppable half-volley into the top corner.
Mike Ashley must be sitting in his plush seat at the Sports Direct Arena (shocking, shocking name) smiling smugly and thinking this Premier league ownership malarky is a doddle!
He sacked the last manager for no real reason, turned the iconic stadium into a laughing stock and yet he has a decent squad, an astute manager and just one point off a champions league spot.
In fact the North-East is on fire at present as the Sunderland revival under Martin O'Neill sees no sign of relenting. O'Neill may not have the same financial muscle or squad as his Tyneside neighbours but he doesn't half have them playing above and beyond.
His superman style transformation of reminisent of the mild-mannered man himself. Outside of football he could be a devout catholic Ulsterman working at a small town accountancy firm. When on the touchline he turns into a tremendously intense football manager who just looks like a devout catholic Ulsterman accoutant.
England's cricketers continue to have a nice little holiday in Dubai by losing test matches within the full five days. When Monty Panaser is your best player (he didn't even play the first test) then you know its not goign well.
The fallout from the lastest England debacle has begun. Can we just play our three group matches and go somewhere warm until next season starts?
For starters John Terry shouldn't even be in the team let alone allowed to be captain...again. Aside from his long list of indiscretions he just isn't good enough to be in the team for mine.
As for Capello...well there's just too much for this blog.
Goodnight sportsfans!
HOWAY!
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