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Chelski want to crush TTFFUTM's title aspirations in their backyard which is understandable, lets just hope they don't bottle it. At least that would allow DD to get one over Twinkle Toes after he pipped DD to the PFA Player of the Year Award. On balance, Twinkle Toes deserved to win it, but I think DD would prefer to win the Premiership than individual trophies - he's the consummate team player. Now, if only he would do something about his hair!!

How TTFFUTM's makeshift defence will cope with AC Milan's Kaka and Seedorf is one of the more intriguing
matchups. Think Maldini will use all his vast experience to thwart Twinkle Toes and Shrek - it will be Istanbul all over again in Athens.

Oh Nigeria, Nigeria, Nigeria, how could you let us down so?! This was supposed to be your big chance to show the world that you can have a smooth transition of power. But instead, we have ballot box napping, ballot boxes being stuffed and intimidation at the ballot box. You would have thought that with all the resources available to the PDP, they would have been able to win without resorting to such skulduggery.

Last Monday, 33 lives were stolen in Virginia, USA and 200 lives were stolen in Baghdad, Iraq. Guess which lives were deemed more worthy of media coverage? We see this happening all the time. Round about this time in 2001, 10,000 lives were lost in Gujerat as a result of an earthquake, 5 months later, just under 3000 lives were lost in New York and the western media and politicians would have us believe that the world changed on September 11. PLEASE, lets have some sense of perspective. The world changed for the victims' family and friends. For the rest of us, what changed was the gradual erosion of our civil liberties, John Ashcroft used September 11 as a pretext to pass the PATRIOT Act which meant that libraries could be forced to divulge what books were being borrowed. Then we had the diversion that is the invasion of Iraq. Now as chaos and anarchy reign supreme, Tony Blair has the bloody cheek to say no mea culpa. In the meantime, the Taliban have become emboldened in Afghanistan and the death toll of the NATO troops continues its steady rise.

The singularly American regard for authority was on display again when a chap took a fatal exception to his performance appraisal and killed his appraiser before killing himself.

El Pirata dispatched the Swiss Maestro in a manner which should make him an odds on cert to retain his French Open title next month.

So the Windies & England wait until they are eliminated from the Cricket World Cup before they put on an entertaining spectacle - its such a shame that Lara was run out like that, but to answer his question, he did entertain us.

Have an entertaining week.