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I’ve not posted for over a month now thanks in part to holiday and then to having a broken hand (hockey is such a girls game!).  But what a few weeks we have had in the World of sport, with the usual highs and lows.

The highs have to be the performance of both Olympics teams as we achieved record medal hauls in both and the Para Olympics.  Add to that England finally putting in a performance worthy of the word and not only winning a game but winning it with style and flair.  Long may it continue although no doubt we will be back to normal come Octobers match.  The resurgence of our much maligned cricket team should be added to this list as well, under the new and seemingly inspirational captaincy of Kevin Pietersen.
On a more personal note, Pompey eventually managed to play some decent football and put together a few wins, including their first ever in Europe, before Calamity James lived up to his nick name and helped the newly rich Manchester City to a 6-0 thrashing.

While on the subject of football their is the nonsense that is Newcastle United, who appear to have gotten everything they deserve, with Mike Ashley looking to sell and Special K having walked, a few weeks earlier than even I predicted.

Sadly though the last couple of weeks have seen the demise of Amir Khan, surprisingly beaten in 57 seconds by a guy who should have been a stepping stone to better opponents.  Well that should let Khan and his management team know he has a bit of work to do at least.

Then more recently this weekend saw Europe relinquish their hold over the Ryder Cup in spectacular fashion, which we should have seen coming with all the talk of us being favourites.  Faldo has come in for some major criticism (largely from the media, who has never seen eye to eye and were clearly waiting for if not hoping he would fail).  In my opinion any such criticism is unfounded - Faldo’s most controversial wild card pick one the most points.  It was the “big guns” who failed to fire over the 3 days.  Most notably Garcia and Harrington.

Anyway all of this just goes to show that sport can get us cheering and laughing one minute and crying into our beer the next.  Seriously though - would we have it any other way?