Mid-season comeback

I must apologise. Two weeks without the internet has rendered this blog as relevant as Wales’ Grand Slam hopes. The world of sport has been spinning faster than Monty Panesar in my absence, so I’m going to do a quick rundown of the best and worst before resuming business as usual:

Good:

• English clubs all look set to progress to the next stage of the Champions League. Premiership: best league in Europe.
• Tiger Woods returning victorious to matchplay golf. Not Brit-related but great to see him back on the fairway.
• Formula 1 testing new cars – Ferrari’s in particular looks great. Will be interesting to see how the new technological developments affect racing – more blogging on this in the months to come, I’m sure.
• Manchester United winning the Carling Cup and slimming down the quintuple odds day by day. Just a matter of personal bias, this one.

Bad:

• The attacks on the Sri Lankan cricket team. Not British but momentous, an awful intrusion of terrorism into the world of sport, and a terrible loss of life.
• England failing to understand that there are rules to rugby. Our spectacular lack of discipline - 10 yellows in 4 games – has become a weakness everyone knows they can exploit.
• James DeGale being booed in his first professional bout. Ok, so he didn’t perform at his best, but he won every round. Give the guy a chance, it’s his first pro fight…
• Andy Murray pulling out of the Davis Cup with a virus.

That’s all for now, but rest assured, some genuine blogging is on its way.

Who will win the Six Nations?

My predictions (like all the best soothsayers, I waited until I’d seen the first round) are:  Wales to win but not to get the Grand Slam. Ireland to finish second,  France third, England fourth, Scotland fifth and Italy sixth.  Lets see how wrong that turns out to be – feel free to post your own predictions.