When are professional cyclists ever going to just go out and race? Just when we thought the Tour de France was finally going to get a clean run, 17 teams refuse to sign up to next year's UCI series.
Glad to see Walter Smith has finally been able to sum up Kenny Miller's career after his second Rangers debut against Preussen Munster - "he might have got a goal or two". "Might" being the word.
I must take issue with Kenneth P Colville's description of Celtic's win against Inter Milan in the 1967 European Cup final as "a narrow victory in a very dull game". He should be ashamed of himself. Celtic beat one of the most fancied Italian teams ever. The manner in which the Celtic team outclassed their opponents is legendary. I suggest he sit down and watch the game, as I can only assume he has never done so.
Refering to Ewen Murray's "angry incredible hulk" comments about Colin Montgomerie: the behaviour of Montgomerie may come as a disappointment to many, but not as a surprise.
The Beeb's frenzied search for a "Brit" (read English) winner at the tennis saw a 14-year-old lassie's match leading the BBC sports news on Saturday morning in spite of it being women's final day.
Perhaps, after Andy Murray's thrashing by Rafa Nadal, the Scottish tennis press might just concede that Tim Henman wasn't a "loser" or "bottler" after all.
I read yesterday that Newcastle are set to discuss Joey Barton's future after he was given a suspended sentence for a training-ground punch-up last year.
It was amusing to hear the mostly English pundits and commentators on both TV and radio refer to the Spanish national football team as "perennial underachievers".
SO, it looks likely that European Championships as of Euro 2016 will feature either 20 or 24 sides, as opposed to the current 16 after all the European national football associations came out in favour of the expansion at the weekend.
Terry Butcher feels that James McFadden should stay with Birmingham City and play in the Championship, as opposed to moving to Celtic, as this would be better for the Scottish national team. Craig Brown feels the same but also says Kris Boyd should stay at Ibrox and try and force his way into the Rangers team.
On Wednesday a big screen showing the Euro 2008
semi-final to 22,000 Turkey and Germany fans failed. Remarkably it passed off without rioting, attacks on police or looting of shops.
Michael Smith, by email
It was interesting to learn that Joachim Loew is the first manager of Germany never to have played for the national team. One can think of a few Scotland coaches who have got into major tournaments - Craig Brown, Andy Roxburgh, Walter Smith - having never played for Scotland.
Stephen Lightbody, Paisley
When are the commentators at Euro 2008 going to realise that England are not playing. They just can't help themselves by continually getting in some reference to either the England team or referring to foreign players as being with Chelsea, Arsenal, Man Utd. Watching the Portugal v Germany match on ITV, I lost count of the English references which destroys the myth that this is just a BBC problem. Be thankful England are not there as they would have been even further humiliated given the class of teams we are seeing at Euro 2008.
That was such a sad letter from R J Stewart in Tuesday's Fans with Laptops; Andy Murray is a credit to Scotland and good luck to the boy in progressing his tennis career at Wimbledon next week.
RSS feeds
Sport
