2007 - March

[Sweder]

As I've said elsewhere recently, you don't always - or often - get what you deserve in football.

For much of last night it looked as though QPR would upset a whole queue of applecarts by taking all three points against high-flying Derby. Then not only do the Rams force home an equaliser, but the hard-earned point fails to stop the hoops slipping into the relegation zone.

Sorry, this wasn't intended to dampen your ardour.
If you need cheering up on the football front my old mate Ronaldo (the gifted one that plays in Manchester, not the Milanese pie-eater) went arse over tit in spectacular fashion during last night's ludicrous MU Rowdies versus Europe-and-Brazil palaver at the Devil Bowl. If you can, catch the footage; the boy ties himself in so many knots he almost ends up in tears. Of course redemption was just around the corner when he stunned Casillas with possibly the best 40-yard+ free kick since that flukey beach-football swerver from Roberto Carlos.