I’ve had the busiest weekend ever. Ok, not ever. Just… barely a chance to nap. THAT busy. There was just more sport to see than ever in the history of my tv. And soooo exiting.

First the Scots played the Italians at rugby and… lost. To the Italians??? Yes, the Italians. One of the greatest rugby-playing nations in all of the British Isles losing to a bunch of cowardly, bum-pinching Romeos. Although a lot of their names sound way more… Kiwi/Fiji/Samoa than Rome/Sicily/Florence. And the son of Michael Lynagh, the former captain of Australia, plays for Italy too. It’s almost as easy to get Italian citizenship these days as it is to beat Scotland at rugby. They won the match in the dying minutes.

Then the Irish came to Twickenham and it was the most exiting match ever. And Ireland were winning (and thus probably the Grand Slam) until the 82nd minute, and then they lost. Amazing drop goal by Marcus Smith and it was World Cup 2003 all over again. With me running round the lounge screaming at Mel. Who, quite frankly, couldn’t have been less interested if we were discussing the comparative colours of modern urinals.

On Sunday it was football. Two matches played. Big ones. The ‘fixture of all fixtures’, as it was billed. The mouth-watering clash between Spurs and Aston villa who battle for 4th place. Oh, then another less important game with Liverpool and Manchester City conspiring to draw in order to keep Arsenal at the top of the table, but the whole ‘super Sunday’ shtick was about the Spurs match. And, as a ‘neutral’ (almost) and impartial football lover, there was so much football to love. ALL of it played by Spurs. In attack, with Madison back, Kulusevski on fire, Sonny imperious and young Brennan Johnson outstanding. The defence were sublime. All of them. Even Destiny Ugoge managed to survive the brutal assault of John McGinn, the Villa captain, with both legs just about in tact. “He’s full of ‘passion’, that John McGinnis, in’he”, they all say. Well, he committed a crime of passion. And if you see him on Valentine’s Day, run!

Yes, Spurs were magnificent. 4 nil, away from home. Three points, clean sheet, I was made very happy. In my… errrr… impartiality.

Very happy Monday

A xxxx