Here’s the sports round-up. Though if you substitute ‘football’ for ‘sport’, which my mind pretty much does on its own, there is no round up. Other than the Under 21 European Championships, which I seem to have completely missed. And the Women’s World Cup, which actually became of minor interest yesterday. Which I’ll come back to later because there are 2 British sports-people who actually did rather well yesterday.

One was Lewis Hamilton who notched up yet another Grand Prix win in France yesterday. He started the race first and ended first. In the intervening 4 hours, safe to say, absolutely nothing happened. Other than pollution. Lots of pollution. But we don’t shrug off Hamilton as a mere whizz kid. He’s no longer really a kid, for a start. And he is rapidly becoming ‘the best F1 driver ever’. Which makes me kind’a proud. If only I could ever force myself to watch it.

And then in a much more real sport, Andy Murray won the final at Queens. Ok, it was ‘only’ the doubles, and real men don’t really play doubles. Really. But considering he had a new hip fitted about 4 months ago, you have to admit he looked ‘fairly mobile’ as he hurled himself round the court, twisting and turning and… being Scottish. The only surprise is that the new hip seemed to have made him smile more. I only saw the bits of the tennis they showed on the news (can’t watch tennis on tv unless its Wimbledon, absolute red-line rule) but he smiled more in six 20-second snips that he usually does in 27 hours of Wimbledon. Great surgeon.

I turned on the tv and there it was, before my very eyes: football. Played by women, but football. England were 3-0 up and it was 65 minutes gone. So I’d definitely missed the good bit. What I saw was decidedly underwhelming. But then I heard what had preceded and I was impressed. The Cameroon team were elbowing people in the face, spitting at opponents, shouting and screaming at the ref, arguing with the God that is VAR. It sounded brilliant. Yet all I was left with was a bunch of pony-tails, and a few affro hairdos, strolling round a park. With a ball.

Don’t think they played any cricket yesterday. Another sport I can’t watch but otherwise love (go figure).

Happy Monday

A xxxx