Category: Sports

Put the main competitive event of the football season (given the League position) in the middle of the week.

My local team, Brighton and Hove Albion – strugglers in the second tier of football here in the UK – met the former giants Leeds United today. Leeds were relegated from the top flight last year, after a nail-biting ever-so-near-escape. Surely tiddlers like Brighton couldn’t overcome the recently great Leeds?

Final score: Brighton & HA 1 – Leeds United 0

And it was an own goal, too. Ouch.

The world’s an unfamiliar but lovely place when the England cricket team can thump the West Indies in a test series.