Harry's Blog

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q80wfAzeRKA

Now this is one great sports video.

Crikey that came around fast didn't it? This is one of the problems of being a parent to twins, life outside the house often passes you by rather quickly.

The community shield came and went without notice and now the Premiership kicks off today.

All the pubs around here seem to specialise in heroin over football so there's nowhere really go watch the events.

Perhaps when wifey comes back from work this afternoon and I need to copy our son's always convincing puppy-dog eyes and whisper about my need to add Sky Sports to our Tiscali TV package.

After all, I don't think I could stand another season with my main source of football being the whinging old blimp Alan Green.

Update: £22 to add Sky Sports. Not on your nelly Rupert.

Because on BBC Five Live it seems to be 1924. I could understand if the commentary from a match in Uganda sounded like it was being recorded with a Fisher Price "my first karaoke" kit, but not one from Moscow.

Well Manchester United certainly aren't off to a flying start. We've ground out two crap draws now in two games - pretty miserable considering the opposition has been Reading and Portsmouth.

Obviously it could be worse, it's not like we've had an absolutely tonking at home by Everton, but these first two games hardly inspire confidence.

Still there's some ray of sunshine in my footballing existence and this is the progress of Morecambe - a club I've followed since I used to live next to Christie Park in the early 90s.

Morecambe's victory of Preston in the Carling Cup was a phenomenal result and shows a team punching ably above its weight, unlike my home team in red.

Bollocks.

Some interesting matches here then, the draw has just been made for the FA Cup quarter finals.

Middlesbrough/West Bromwich Albion v Manchester United/Reading
Arsenal/Blackburn Rovers v Manchester City
Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur
Plymouth Argyle v Watford

Conspiracy theorists might wonder how Arsenal, Chelsea or Manchester United managed to miss each other.

The actor Sylvester Stallone attended this afternoon's match between Everton and Reading today (honours even at 1-1). An entertainment journalist from BBC Five Live managed to have a few words with him and he struck me (as he did during his brilliant AICN Q&A series recently) as a funny and smart guy.

But my goodness, his visit to Goodison Park brought out the winging bitter side of Alan Green, well, his even more winging bitter side. I'm sure most listeners to Five Live's football coverage are familiar with the bloated old moan machine, but today he surpassed himself.

Towards the end of the match, spitting bile with every word, Green gave us his thoughts on Stallone's presence at today's match. It's bad enough having to hear Green whine about footballing matters, but he sounded so desperately pathetic going on and on about Sly and whether he was going to leave early, what he might know about football and his bodyguard.

Sad desperate stuff really.