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What a fantastics weekend of sport, especially for British sports fans.
3 play off finals, with Hull gaining Premiership status for the first time with a superb goal from the oldest guy on the pitch, Doncaster turning over Yorkshire rivals Leeds and Stockport beating Rochdale in a thriller yesterday.  All in all great for us northern chaps!

I didn’t get to see the second two matches as I was on a stag night in the Yorkshire Dales where they have just got running water and the occasional inside toilet, so no mobile phone reception and definitely no satellite TV or internet cafe.

This meant that having watched Hull win and then the England cricket team bat at 2.4 an over for a few hours of tedium I received a nice surprise when I got back to civilisation.  Predictably the England middle order had collapsed but then unpredictably Panesar bowled career best figures of 6/37 and in reply Strauss made a century, with England running out winners by six wickets. I thought the game had draw all over it but it just proves it can change so quickly.

Then the Monaco Grand Prix and Lewis Hamilton claiming first spot despite crashing on lap six.   The win puts him 3 points clear but the Championship looks like it could be a close run thing with Ferrari hot on the heels of McLaren. Is it me or has the coverage of this year’s F1 been slightly muted?  I’ve hardly heard any mention of it in the press and we have the prospect of the first British Champion for years.  Last year there seemed to be loads of coverage about Hamilton winning in his rookie season.  It’s almost as if winning it in his second year is either expected or not exciting enough.  Then again maybe its just me.

Anyway, all in all a great weekend for sport, even if I didn’t get to see a lot of it.  It’s still good to see the Brits doing well for once - let’s just hope that England can go on to win the Test series and you never know maybe even Andy Murray might have a good run at Wimbledon.  That might just take our minds off of the European Championships, although we do have a friendly tomorrow with England facing USA - joy!