The Artful Dodger

Maybe not, Truax got this so far...

DeGale taking some punishment here in the 5th, bit of a surprise but hopefully seen the worst of it and can take it as the fight gets older.

Bonkers this. Northern Ireland is a very peculiar case and there are priorities there which could effect peace, yet the DUP can't bring themselves to look out for these things rather vetoing things because they're scared of a United Ireland. I kind of get why the Scottish are envious though.

My favourite thing about Christmas

Bollocks. The cards are stacked so firmly in favour of certain clubs, Chelsea don’t deserve the mantle big club they’re a lottery winner, they don’t need the fixtures fiddled further in their favour. The bald match fixer is just looking for excuses.

Gang rape. How the hell do you get to not turn up at a rape trial?

Waste of time that fight anyway, is anybody that interested? Haye is done and Bellew is just looking for one last pay cheque, I don't think he should be looking to take on anyone else at Heavyweight, although that's where the money will be for him.

Anyone on Dectorists? Fantastic, subtle British comedy series with a brilliant warmth to it. Written by Mackenzie Crook, looks like he might have been the George Harrison of the Office ensemble.

Bigger club bigger media interest, way it will always be with Manchester United and Liverpool.

Between him and Pardew for biggest twats. most managers moan but Mourinho seems to be a genuinely unpleasant man.

What a predictable waste of money Sigurdsson is proving to be, crazy signing.

Replacing a bad owner with a bad owner is the worst that can happe. Ashley is a slave driving scumbag, he tarnished Newcastle’s name.

All sorts of things being said, mainly that the victims were real pieces of work but hard to know where the truth lies. England are fucked without him though, about the only player to come out okay from the last Ashes in Australia.

Yugoslavia is not a great comparison with Spain, Yugoslavia had ethnic and religious hatreds at its core, it was only kept running by the strict rule of Tito and collapsed when he died. Catalunya is an odd one, there is definitely a distinct identity, as all regions of Spain have, but the nationalist movement seems to be mainly a movement of the bourgeois and privileged (i.e brats like Pique). Catalunya is an immensely wealthy region and I find the independence movement to be quite a selfish movement, certainly in comparison to other modern nationalism like in Scotland which is primarily a left-wing phenomenom. That being said, who the hell am I to judge, if they can function as a country and that's what the majority want then so be it.

No, Rodgers was a busted flush at Liverpool. Klopp's bewildering refusal to fix the centre back-goalkeeper situation is odd though, there's not often I feel able to actually judge a manger's decision but this does seem ridiculous.

Bellew beating a Haye was a huge upset no matter the circumstances. Is anybody really interested in a rematch though?

If you've got BT sport is the golovkin v alvarez fight free to air?

Hardly likely in such a compact environment, only a few people would have seen anything and they would have ran quickly. It's only when people are a safe distance that their gruesome voyerurism comes out.

Koeman has already managed Ajax, a club far bigger than Everton, Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City.

Overreaction. They've had the hardest start they could have; only today could have been said to be really disappointing. Spurs are a fantastic side though. Everton will be fine, concentrate on cups; but they do need a striker.

Are Arsenal asset stripping because of the loss of Champions League?

Wenger has turned into a dictator if this is true about Mustafi.

Wonderful match. Credit to Root took a relatively bold and it hasn't paid off but would anyone have argued yesterday? I hope this doesn't scar him and make him more conservative. England have bowled poorly for most of the match and Windies have been brilliant.

There a bit of a Liverpool 2010 aura about Arsenal at the moment, it took them years to get back and haven't consistently secured that yet. Liverpool hit a low with Hodgson, will Wenger plumb depths as low?

We actually have an entertaining test on our hands, possibly embarrassing for England against the Windies but I'd rather this than an annilhilation.