Yes Khan do?

Great victory by Amir Khan on Saturday. The lad appears to have defied the old boxing adage, and actually added muscle to his chin. We should find out in the next year just how good a fighter he really is, but the signs are starting to look promising. Despite the astonishing improvement in his chin, I still suspect he may remain susceptible to being caught cold at the beginning of a fight...

It is now...

Or perhaps not. Ah well, there's always 2030 - the hundreth anniversary of the tournament, so an appropriate time to host it at 'the home of football'TM

They think it's all over...

So David Beckham is a bit of a joke? Well he's just made a speech which I suspect may win England the World Cup in 2018:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9250670.stm

Better late than never

The shortlist for this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year has just been announced, and Phil 'The Power' Taylor is included!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/sports_personality_of_the_year/default.stm

This clearly shows that the Beeb monitors this blog and listens to what I have to say - see my posting from a year ago:

http://floatlikeabutterflysting.blogspot.com/2009/12/shurely-shume-mistake.html

Hope the joke's not on Haye

David Haye should beat 'Ordinary' Harrison easily on Saturday (and I hope he does), but at heavyweight you just never know. That's why it was very silly for Haye to take this fight - if he's going to get caught by a bomb, far better that it happens against one of the Klitschko's than against some bum

Football vs. Football

I saw Darlo for the first time in ages last weekend, playing at Mossley in the 4th qualifying round of the FA Cup. The game itself was spoiled by the unnecessary 'double-punishment' rule (their goalkeeper was adjudged to have brought down our player in the penalty area, resulting in both a red card for the keeper and a penalty kick), but a 6-2 win is a 6-2 win. Also a reminder of the good old days, when I could watch Darlo for £7 - the £20+ I've paid to see them against the likes of Accrington Stanley and Bury in League Two is just ridiculous.

Now for this weekend, something completely different: San Francisco 49ers vs Denver Broncos at Wembley Stadium...

What the Haye?

Now I'm always been a big fan of David Haye. But calling the Klitchko brothers out, and then choosing to duck them and instead fight Audley Harrison? Come on David, get a grip man - you're a World Champion for goodness sake. A unification bout with Wladimir Klitchko would be huge (and very winable - his chin is so suspect); a fight with 'Ordinary' Harrison is just a joke.