So the Cazorla deal is agreed.
The Spanish midfielder will have a medical today.
Malaga badly need 22m euros and Arsenal badly need more experience in the middle of the park.
This guy should give the team more consistency & pal Arteta will help him settle in.
Mick Dennis, on Sky Sports News, quoted his colleague John Dillon on Bradley Wiggins:
“Few British athletes, many of them more in tune with brave failure, have worn the status of favourite as lightly and confidently as Wiggins did here. Nor have they inhabited the role of winner and historic figure with such a natural or popular style.â€
Bradley Wiggins stamps will be on sale tomorrow.
This morning a splendid young man, Yohan Blake, was interviewed on SSN.
“Why does Usain call you The Beast?”
“Because when my coach gives me my programme, I damage it.”
We went to The Globe last night.
When you see Richard III, it\s all about what the actor does with the part.
Mark Rylance played the evil Richard for laughs in an audacious production with a phenomenal finale.
The way he speaks the verse is wondrous, as everyone knows by now. Al Pacino said, “Mark Rylance makes it sound like Shakespeare wrote it for him yesterday.” Although I’ve heard A.A.Gill said that first.
Roger Lloyd Pack (Buckingham) was outstanding too. Some actors just go into a zone towards the end of their careers and his Buckingham was so good I kept wishing he’d come on again. And he did because Buckingham has a big part.
I quickly got used to seeing tall young men in wigs playing the female roles.
During the intermission I took out a small silver tin that Jan was given with her garage bill: AlanDay VW With Compliments.
“Woulds’t thou like a peppermint?” I asked.
Jan giggled and said, “How long is this gonna go on for?”
After the play we lingered by the Thames wall, sipping warm water from her plastic bottle, opposite the illuminated dome of St Paul’s, with all the bridges lit up beautifully and the tide coming in. Then we walked swiftly round the back of Tate Modern, beneath a gigantic white crane, thence to the traffic lights opposite Southwark tube station.
“I think he took a bit of Jerusalem into Richard,” said Jan.
As we waited for the lights to change, I said, “Would that Will Shakespeare himself could have caught the Jubilee Line to Wembley Park, there to pen a sonnet or two.”
This morning Jan saiI thought the play last night was fantastic. I was absolutely mesmerised.”
“If only we’d seen it without those helicopters. Boris should ban them.”
Later on I heard a voice from downstairs.
“Myles?”
“Yes?”
“They lit up the bridges last night because of the gold medals. They don\’t do it all the time.â€
She’s just gone out to the boxing with her friend Anna, who phoned with a spare ticket at 8.15 a.m.
Surprised? I was. A pair of retired teachers have gone to see Olympic Boxing.
The badminton scandal did my head in.
The Chinese top seeds, two pairs from South Korea and one from Indonesia, deliberately played to lose, to get an easier quarter-final draw. To hit the shuttlecock into the net deliberately was disgusting. What a grotesque insult by eight women to their sport, to the Olympic Games, to London, to people who had paid good money and had been looking forward to that event for months.
No doubt some of the spectators were badminton players !
I was really incensed when I saw that.
I thought : That’s the most despicable thing I’ve seen in sport since Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield in Las Vegas in ’97.
Amazingly, that fight was allowed to continue after Tyson bit off a piece of the champion\’s right ear and spat it out. He wasn’t disqualified for that. The fight was stopped after Tyson bit his other ear.
Only in Amerika.