MadMonkey: Full Time France 10 - 34 Argentina

The 3rd & 4th play off spot in the Rugby is a nice friendly affair between France & Argentina right now

I think there are more players in the sin-bin than anywhere else

Anyway, half-time and Argentina are 17-3 up, i wondered why tenuki was not on line, probably playing

Oceans Apart:

Oceans Apart: Surely he does not have to win
He must play in & do well in enough Tournament to keep it

Oceans Apart:

And an early good luck to Lewis Hamilton, who could win the Formula 1 world championship this Sunday

Oceans Apart: A funny game, you went 1-0 up, then 2-1 down, then won 3-2

but its a win

Dont forget, those who use Firefox and can not afford to watch the final one day match England Vs India on Sky or whatever. Its 3-3 and has been a great series......

Download CricketFox for up to the minute scores live on you taskbar

Oceans Apart: What can you say

Well played Argentina, and they did not even have to bring tenuki on

Sunday, 02 September 2007

Arsenal 3-1 Portsmouth
Aston Villa 2-0 Chelsea
Blackburn 1-0 Man City

Saturday, 01 September 2007

Bolton 1-2 Everton
Fulham 3-3 Tottenham
Liverpool 6-0 Derby
Man Utd 1-0 Sunderland
Middlesbrough 2-0 Birmingham
Newcastle 1-0 Wigan
Reading 0-3 West Ham

Group A
LIVERPOOL
Porto
Marseille
Besiktas

Group B
CHELSEA
Valencia
Schalke 04
Rosenborg

Group C
REAL MADRID
Werder Bremen
Lazio
Olympiakos

Group D
AC MILAN
Benfica
CELTIC
Shakhtar Donetsk

Group E
BARCELONA
Lyon
Stuttgart
RANGERS

Group F
MANCHESTER UNITED
Roma
Sporting Lisbon
Dynamo Kiev

Group G
INTER MILAN
PSV Eindhoven
CSKA Moscow
Fenerbahce

Group H
ARSENAL
Sevilla/AEK Athens
Steau Bucharest
Slavia Prague

Tuesday: hmmm too wide ???

Well if there is a post off my screen that may contain a long link, it will stretch your screen though i do always try to fix them if they are, BUT i did think that there was a built in scroll bar now, or maybe that only work for Firefox

Let me go look

Oceans Apart:

The new Premier League season starts Today, 90 days after the last campaign ended with Manchester United taking the title from Chelsea.

In the intervening period more than £350m has been spent as clubs desperate for success search for the winning formula.

But for all the money that the likes of Liverpool and Tottenham have lavished on new faces, it is United and Chelsea who start the season once again as most people's favourites for the title.

With Uefa Cup places also up for grabs and new boys Birmingham, Derby and Sunderland desperate to preserve their top-flight status it promises to be a fascinating season.

For myself, go Arsenal, you have won 2 Trophy's already inthe warm up Tournaments.You can do it

Well 2 trophys for the young Arsenal side as they get ready to take on the BIG 3 again in the pemiership starting next week.
All i can say is Go Go Arsenal, Good Luck Lads

Emirates Cup

Robin van Persie's brilliant winner saw Arsenal beat Inter Milan and lift the pre-season Emirates Cup.

Van Persie tricked his way into space to drill a powerful shot past the Serie A champions' keeper Francesco Toldo.

Despite dominating for long spells Arsenal fell behind to a well-placed header from Inter's Honduras striker David Suazo.

Arsenal drew level when Alexander Hleb reacted to drill home the loose ball after Toldo saved his initial effort.

For long periods, it looked as though Arsenal had found no solution to their lack of cutting edge from last season.

Some of the Gunners' approach play and passing was exquisite, but they failed to carve out many chances against a stubborn Inter defence.

Hleb and van Persie were invariably involved in the chances they did create.

Hleb's delightful dummy set up van Persie in the first half but keeper Julio Cezar stretched to save and the Dutch striker drew another fine save from the Brazilian keeper.



Amsterdam Tournament

Arsenal scooped their second tournament trophy of the week with a battling 1-0 victory over Ajax on Saturday night.

Arsène Wenger's side had won the Emirates Cup last Sunday thanks to a late strike from Robin van Persie. It was a case of double Dutch this evening as the striker finished off a marauding run from Gael Clichy three minutes from time to win the Amsterdam Tournament.

The victory was deserved. Ajax keeper Maarten Stekelenburg had been by far the busier keeper, saving point-blank from Kolo Toure and Van Persie during a lively 90 minutes.

Of course, pre-season form will count for nothing when the campaign starts properly at the weekend. However, in the past eight days Arsenal's young side have strung together wins over PSG, Inter, Lazio and now Ajax.

Team 		P 	W 	D 	L 	F 	A 	Pts 	Bonus Pts 	Total Pts

Arsenal 	2 	2 	0 	0 	3 	1 	6 	3 		9
Atletico Mad'd	2 	1 	0 	1 	3 	3 	3 	3 		6
Ajax 		2 	1 	0 	1 	2 	1 	3 	2 		5
Lazio 		2 	0 	0 	2 	2 	5 	0 	2 		2

Oceans Apart: Yes, he did great , i do feel sorry for Garcia though, he was leading for so long and playing so well. That first play off hole lost it for him

Not to worry

Oceans Apart: I must say, i do not mind either of them. About time a European won it and neither of these has won a major before

Oceans Apart: Best Open finish i have seen in years, great stuff.

Its funny, they can not start the play off as the flag for the first hole is missing how funny

MadMonkey: Part 1 done Amir Khan wins after being put down as well. He broke Limonds jaw

Good Luck to Amir Khan as he tries to get the Commonwealth Lightweight Title from Scotland's Willie Limond.
Also, our local Michael Sprott takes on Matt Skelton for the Commonwealth Heavyweight Title

On ITV1 at 9-10

Oceans Apart: As i sit at my desk looking out at the horrible weather, to the right is my PC screen, and to the left my TV screen, life of luxury eh

lol, ssshhhh early days

I like watching Garcia, Luke Donald & Darren Clarke, would love him to do well after losing his wife

Oceans Apart: Good luck to him, i know he is related to you, here are my selection

Ernie Els & Paul Lawrie - i always follow
Ian Poulter - Arsenal nut like me, dresses a bit like me as well lol
Graeme Storm - coz i love the name

No golf smiley , then we didnt have a Tennis one either for Wimbledon

Summer Flame: Go far When ever i watch him he goes round in circles LOL

Unlucky to Lewis, who only managed 3rd place in today British Grand Prix.
Still, not bad going, another podium, that 9 out 9 races now, not bad for a Rookie

POS 	DRIVER
1. 	Kimi Raikkonen 	
2. 	Fernando Alonso 
3. 	Lewis Hamilton 
4. 	Robert Kubica 
5. 	Felipe Massa 	
6. 	Nick Heidfeld 
7. 	Heikki Kovalainen 	
8. 	Giancarlo Fisichella 	
9. 	Rubens Barrichello 	
10. 	Jenson Button 	
11. 	David Coulthard 
12. 	Nico Rosberg 	
13. 	Alexander Wurz 	
14. 	Takuma Sato 	
15. 	Christijan Albers 	
16. 	Vitantonio Liuzzi 	

British GP - Saturday - Qualifying Session Results:

Lewis Hamilton left it till the last lap to sneak poll for tomorrows British GP
Go Lewisssss

1. 	Lewis Hamilton 	       
2. 	Kimi Raikkonen   	
3. 	Fernando Alonso 	
4. 	Felipe Massa 	         
5. 	Robert Kubica 	      
6. 	Ralf Schumacher 	
7. 	Heikki Kovalainen 	
8. 	Giancarlo Fisichella 	
9. 	Nick Heidfeld 	     
10. 	Jarno Trulli 	         
11. 	Mark Webber 	    
12. 	David Coulthard 	
13. 	Alexander Wurz 	        
14. 	Rubens Barrichello 	
15. 	Scott Speed 	         
16. 	Vitantonio Liuzzi 	
17. 	Nico Rosberg 	       
18. 	Jenson Button 	    
19. 	Anthony Davidson 	
20. 	Adrian Sutil 	     
21. 	Takuma Sato 	    
22. 	Christijan Albers 	

Well i had a go, but not being American know nothing about American Football & Basketball

Well Done Tim Henman, finished his first round match from yesterday on center court.
Won 3 - 2 in sets (13-11 in the last), great stuff as he has had such a bad year (need a Tennis smiley for Wimbledon)

Oceans Apart: Oh yes, i forgot about that. Is it on TV? I have not got a paper today, and cant see it flicking through the Menu on Virgin

Well, nice investment for someone Lewis Hamiltons Go-Cart, bidding closes Wednesday

United States Grand Prix Results - 17 June 2007 - 73 Laps

Pos 	Driver

1. 	Lewis Hamilton 	
2. 	Fernando Alonso 	
3. 	Felipe Massa 	
4. 	Kimi Raikkonen 	
5. 	Heikki Kovalainen 
6. 	Jarno Trulli 	
7. 	Mark Webber 	
8. 	Sebastian Vettel 	
9. 	Giancarlo Fisichella 	
10. 	Alexander Wurz 	
11. 	Anthony Davidson 	
12. 	Jenson Button 	
13. 	Scott Speed 	
14. 	Adrian Sutil 	
15. 	Christijan Albers

Drivers' Championship  	Country  	Team  		Points

Lewis Hamilton 		Great Britain 	McLaren 	58
Fernando Alonso 	Spain 		McLaren 	 48
Felipe Massa 		Brazil 	 	Ferrari  	39
Kimi Raikkonen 		Finland 	Ferrari 	32
Nick Heidfeld 		Germany 	BMW Sauber 	26
Giancarlo Fisichella 	Italy 		Renault 	13
Heikki Kovalainen 	Finland 	Renault 	12
Robert Kubica 	 	Poland 		BMW Sauber 	12
Alexander Wurz 		Austria 	Williams 	8
Jarno Trulli 	 	Italy 		Toyota 		7
Nico Rosberg 		Germany 	Williams  	5
David Coulthard 	Great Britain 	Red Bull 	4
Takuma Sato 		Japan 		Super Aguri 	4
Mark Webber 		Australia	Red Bull 	2
Ralf Schumacher 	Germany 	Toyota 		2
Sebastian Vettel 	Germany 	BMW Sauber 	1
	
Constructors' Championship 	Points

McLaren 			106
Ferrari 			71
BMW Sauber 			39
Renault 			25
Williams 			13
Toyota 				 9
Red Bull 			 6
Super Aguri 			 4

MadMonkey: Hey Monkey, Lewis WON

Full Result shortly

United States GP - Saturday - Qualifying Session Results
Go Lewis, Good Luck again
Also Best Wishes goto Sebastian Vetel, a test driver standing in for Rosert Kubica who crashed last week

POS 	DRIVER 	

1. 	Lewis Hamilton - Go Lewis
2. 	Fernando Alonso 	
3. 	Felipe Massa 	
4. 	Kimi Raikkonen 	
5. 	Nick Heidfeld 	
6. 	Heikki Kovalainen 	
7. 	Sebastian Vettel - First ever F1 drive - Good Luck
8. 	Jarno Trulli 	
9. 	Mark Webber 	
10. 	Giancarlo Fisichella 
11. 	David Coulthard 	
12. 	Ralf Schumacher 	
13. 	Jenson Button 	
14. 	Nico Rosberg 	
15. 	Rubens Barrichello 	
16. 	Anthony Davidson 
17. 	Alexander Wurz 	
18. 	Takuma Sato 	
19. 	Vitantonio Liuzzi 	
20. 	Scott Speed 	
21. 	Adrian Sutil 	
22. 	Christijan Albers

Summer Flame: yep, final practice on later

WELL DONE to Lewis Hamilton on winning the Canadian Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton won the Canadian GP, in Montreal, today, taking his maiden Grand Prix victory for McLaren-Mercedes in only his sixth start(One first, two seconds & three third places now, not bad eh). Nick Heidfeld finished second in the BMW-Sauber, while Alexander Wurz took third place in his Williams-Toyota.

Heikki Kovalainen in the Renault was fourth, Kimi Raikkonen in the Ferrari was fifth, Takuma Sato in the Super Aguri-Honda was sixth, Fernando Alonso in the second McLaren-Mercedes was seventh and Ralf Schumacher in the Toyota took the final point.

Rosert Kubica has been taken to the L'Hopital du Sacre-Coeur de Montreal in the downtown area for tests following his enormous crash in the Canadian Grand Prix. The Polish driver is reported to have a broken leg, but is conscious and talking. Kubica hit the wall at high speed (160+) on lap 27 while he was fighting for 13th place with Jarno Trulli. The collosal impact, on the right side of the track in the fast left-hander before the hairpin, catapulted the car back across the track , coming to rest on its side at the hairpin.
He was extracted from the car eight minutes after the crash.

RESULT

1. 	Lewis Hamilton 		Britain 	McLaren-Mercedes   
2. 	Nick Heidfeld 		Germany 	BMW 
3. 	Alexander Wurz 		Austria 	Williams-Toyota 
4. 	Heikki Kovalainen 	Finland 	Renault 
5. 	Kimi Raikkonen 		Finland 	Ferrari 
6. 	Takuma Sato 		Japan 	        Super Aguri-Honda 	
7. 	Fernando Alonso 	Spain 	        McLaren-Mercedes
8. 	Ralf Schumacher 	Germany 	Toyota 
9. 	Mark Webber 		Australia 	Red Bull-Renault 
10. 	Nico Rosberg 		Germany 	Williams-Toyota 
11. 	Anthony Davidson 	Britain 	Super Aguri-Honda 
12. 	Rubens Barrichello 	Brazil 	        Honda 

Manchester Utd

Well a 1-1 draw between Arsenal & Chelsea means that Manchester are league Champions, WELL DONE

BIG crunch match this afternoon.
Chelsea MUST win at Arsenal to have any hope of the league.
A draw or Arsenal win will give the league to Man Utd.
GO GO GO GOOONERS

Arsenal 1 - 1 Chelsea

Oceans Apart: That will not help Reading's chances of getting into Europe
And look at Liverpool after there great game to knock Chelsea out of the Champions league this week.

ENGLAND - Barclays Premiership

13:45	FT	Manchester City	0 : 1	Manchester Utd	
16:00	FT	Wigan		0 : 1	Middlesbrough	
16:00	FT	Reading		0 : 2	Watford	
16:00	FT	Newcastle	0 : 2	Blackburn	
16:00	FT	Fulham		1 : 0	Liverpool	
16:00	FT	Everton		3 : 0	Portsmouth	
16:00	FT	West Ham	3 : 1	Bolton	
18:15	latest	Aston Villa	0 : 0	Sheffield Utd	

World Cup winner Alan Ball has died of a heart attack at the age of 61.

Ball was the youngest member of the England side that won the World Cup in 1966 and went on to win 72 caps.

The industrious midfielder started his career at Blackpool and went on to play for Everton, Arsenal and Southampton before a playing spell in America.

He also managed seven clubs over a 19-year period, including two spells with Portsmouth as well as Southampton and Manchester City.

Ball was awarded an MBE in 2000 for his services to football.

He is the second member of the side that beat West Germany 4-2 at Wembley to die. Captain Bobby Moore died of cancer in 1993.

ALAN BALL
Born: Lancashire 12/05/1945
Playing career: Played for Blackpool, Everton, Arsenal, Southampton, Philadelphia Fury, Vancouver Whitecaps (player manager), Blackpool (player manager), Southampton, Eastern (Hong Kong), Bristol Rovers
Made 975 appearances in a 21-year career
Managerial career: Portsmouth, Colchester, Stoke, Exeter, Southampton, Manchester City, Portsmouth
Honours: World Cup (1966), league title (1970)

Oceans Apart: Its not over yet :o(
Dont you have to win though to stay up ?

Oceans Apart: I had silver Birch
Sitting in our local club with George the 'Bookie' as we call him even though he is a postman LOL i had already backed my 3 horses, but just before the race went off reading through the racing paper a guy mentioned Silver Birch as an e/w bet, so i had a 1 e/w on him with George
OK its only 43 pound, but it was a huge profit..........out for a beer today me think

Oceans Apart: You can get 14-1 at the moment for that

If Hedgehunter does not win i think Point Barrow could do it. It won last years Irish Grand National.

Hey, i just had a though, how about a Brainking sweepstake for it ?
Hmmm have to have a quick think, either Brains to enter, or 1 EUR each. Fencer could randomly generate who gets what horse & either share the Brains/Eur out 1st,2nd,3rd & 4th or maybe Fencer would donate some free months membership

Oceans Apart: You got any Grand National winners in the family, i could do with this weekends one at Aintree

(i reckon Hedgehunter again )

Oceans Apart: Yeahhhhh , nice one O.A.

Another bit of trivia for the quiz players there

Anyone know the connection between the Green jacket at Augusta & the winner of this years Irish Grand National ? (try not to use Google ) lol

Summer Flame: LOL, i dont know what the fuss is all about, all Flintoff did was went for a drink (ok, alot of drink).
Imagine them doing that to Ian Botham & Viv Richards in there hey day
They used to live together and play for different Teams, but drank all the time. In fact the rest of the players in them days for West Indies & England used to take it in turns to go out drinking with them, as no one could keep up, but they were still on the field the next day and you cant take away from them how good they were.
Its all politics now.........
The next thing will stop the darts players drinking before & after matches, its bad enough they stop them on stage now (and in snooker).
Now for a

skipinnz: Yep, quite mad LOL
Poor old Pakistan not going anywhere
Here are the latest standings:

TEAM			P	W	D	L	Net R/R	Points
Group A

Australia		2	2	0	0	4.32	4
South Africa		1	1	0	0	5.52	2
Scotland		1	0	0	1	-4.06	0
Netherlands		2	0	0	2	-5.00	0

Group B
			
Sri Lanka		1	1	0	0	4.86	2
Bangladesh		1	1	0	0	0.14	2
India			1	0	0	1	-0.14	0
Bermuda			1	0	0	1	-4.86	0

Group C
			
New Zealand		1	1	0	0	0.94	2
Kenya			1	1	0	0	0.70	2
England			2	1	0	1	0.07	2
Canada			2	0	0	2	-0.89	0

Group D
			
Ireland			2	1	1	0	0.27	3
West Indies		1	1	0	0	1.08	2
Zimbabwe		1	0	1	0	0.00	1
Pakistan		2	0	0	2	-0.84	0

Well, CONGRATULATIONS to Lewis Hamilton on his debut in the first race of the new F1 season. He started 3rd, and finished 3rd and also led at one point.
Great for British motor sport and hope he can keep it up

AUSTRALIAN GP RACE RESULT

1.  RAIKKONEN     Ferrari      1h25m28.770s

2.  ALONSO        McLaren      +7.2s

3.  HAMILTON      McLaren      +18.5s

4.  HEIDFELD      BMW          +38.7s

5.  FISICHELLA    Renault      +66.4s

6.  MASSA         Ferrari      +66.8s

7.  ROSBERG       Williams     +1 lap

8.  SCHUMACHER    Toyota       +1 lap

9.  TRULLI        Toyota       +1 lap

10. KOVALAINEN    Renault      +1 lap

11. BARRICHELLO   Honda        +1 lap

12. SATO          Super Aguri  +1 lap

13. WEBBER        Red Bull     +1 lap

14. LIUZZI        Toro Rosso   +1 lap

15. BUTTON        Honda        +1 lap

16. DAVIDSON      Super Aguri  +2 lap

17. SUTIL         Spyker       +2 lap

R.  WURZ          Williams     +10 laps

R.  COULTHARD     Red Bull     +10 laps

R.  KUBICA        BMW          +22 laps

R.  SPEED         Toro Rosso   +30 laps

R.  ALBERS        Spyker       +48 laps

Fastest Lap: RAIKKONEN 1m25.235s (Lap 41)

MadMonkey: Unlucky Reading, from 3-0 down after 5 mins to lose 3-2 to Man utd. they did great. They hit the bar in the last minute as well and made Man utd. look useless in the last 15mins, oh well

MadMonkey: Reading 2 - 3 Man Utd 5 mins left