I love June because I never take anything seriously in June.
It’s a month of tennis and frivolity and hailstorms.
July starts on Friday and I’m thinking of writing a piece about Wenger in July.
Kick out wrinkly Gunners board, says Lady Nina in the disreputable Daily Star, the paper you go to first when you want to read about married footballers shagging around.
Hill-Wood said : Please shut up, girl.
Myles said : Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Hath is such a good old word, I always think.
Ophelia used it when dad asked about her relationship with Hamlet.
Polonius : What is between you? Give me up the truth.
Ophelia : He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders of his affection to me.
When I was coming home from Hamlet at The Globe on Friday. April 29, Ivan Gazidis and three friends got into our Jubilee Line tube compartment at Baker Street and didn’t sit down.
They got off at St John’s Wood, where he lives. Looked as if they’d been out to dinner. The woman with the grey cardigan may have been Mrs Gazidis.
No, I didn’t accost the Arsenal CEO. I would never do that.
But I thought of shaking his hand and saying, ” I’m sure Arsene will get it right soon.”
Villas-Boas has signed Roberto di Matteo as his assistant.
A smart call by the new Chelsea coach, who won the treble at Porto last season.
Villas-Boas said, “I’m just one gear in this big club that wants to be successful every year. I’m more than happy with the actual squad…..It’s nothing new that when a manager comes, all radical changes are expected…..We have to adjust things carefully and make wise decisions…I want us to be up there from the beginning.”
Di Matteo can help with the latter. I want us to be up there from the beginning.
What are the odds on Chelsea winning their first six games? What are their first six games? I’d love to know.
Five clubs are in for Neymar at £40m.
I said last year that Neymar was three years away from being able to cut it in the EPL. He’s now two years away. Spend those two years at PSV or Porto, you idiot !
A far better striker, and one much more suited to the Premier League, is Falcao, a 25-year old Colombian who is a cross between Marcelo Salas and Ian Wright
Roger Federer is the best tennis player who ever lived.
And Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is over-rated, says a mate who will sitting in the Centre Court today.
Roger doesn’t want it as much as he did before he had those twin girls.
But he wants it this week.
David Haye says his friend Andy Murray is “a boxing encyclopaedia”.
The heavyweight champ loves spending time with Andy at home and in his training gym in Miami.
Could Haye win a long fight with Klitschko in Hamburg?
I’m still thinking about that conundrum.
I’d be amazed if it’s a long fight.
PS 4.26 pm. Blimey !!
Tsonga beat Federer in five sets after losing the first two. Well done, son!
Powered to a 6-4 victory in the final set to defeat the six times Wimbledon champion.
Fantastic contest.
Until now Federer has never lost a grand slam match after being two sets up.