What a weekend of splendid sports action we have had. Fulham did the unthinkable and managed to pull off the great escape much to the disgust of Reading and Birmingham city fans I'm sure. I had Fulham gone and buried a few weeks ago, I even wrote how I thought Birmingham would stay up. There you have it I can’t be right all the time. Birmingham is now a club in real crisis as fans showed a lack of respect as I'm sure emotions were running high. Some Birmingham fans let their mouths run away with them by sending abuse to the board after the game. This was taken on board by the chairmen who now want to sell their shares to each other, seems like things may get messy down at St Andrews. No great surprise when Man U did what they do best by getting the job done. Being the Newcastle fan I am I’m not a big fan of Man U so I wont go into that, however one player stood out from the rest for me and that was Ryan Giggs, what a total pro this guy has been, outstanding and a dream goal to finish the match.

 

Saturday night brought us boxing action. The only hitting Junior Witter did on Saturday night was when he hit the canvas. I slipped up myself, I didn’t even bet on the American Tim Bradley, after round one it was obvious what was going to happen. Witter has been living on the back of a showdown with Hatton for two long and the reason Hatton didn’t give Witter a fight was because it would have being like me fighting a girl, no contest. Brendon Ingle Witter’s trainer mentioned after the Hatton v Mayweather fight that if Witter fought against Mayweather then Mayweather was getting knocked out... I spat coffee across the room when I heard that one; Mr Ingle must have been smoking crack before that interviewed. After the 12th round bell went and Witter raised his gloves, Ingle had a look on his face as if to say it’s all over. Thankfully Bradley has now put all that Hatton talk to bed. Carl Froch did as expected and beat up on some Polish guy for a few rounds. It won’t be to long before we see what he can really do against better opposition. Possibly in the form of Mikkel Kessler, however since Kessler pulled out of his upcoming fight against Edison Miranda, the Froch camp and Mick Hennessey may have to work hard to meet Kessler’s demands as he seems more diva than Maria Carey. Some of Kessler’s demands were extraordinary the only thing missing was a bowl of all blue M&M's in his dressing room.

 

Sven is still the hot topic as Middlesbrough did what Reading needed to do and smashed 8 goals past the opposition. I reckon Sven must already know the outcome of future showdown talks with City’s owner. My sources tell me Sven was spotted getting off the team coach in Boro’s town centre emerging in his Boro shirt, hat and scarf before heading straight into Ladbrokes with a large physio bag tucked under his arm hours before kick off.  If you ask me any manager who faces the cameras after his team has just been smashed like City were is either a top guy who deserves credit after been humiliated by his side and more than likely costing him his job, or a man who has placed a ridiculously large bet on the opposition.. I’ll let you make up your own minds on that one.

Regards

Ross