Snow Stopping this Cold Snap!!

Sarah's intent on watching Sports Personality so it seems like a good time to hop on the laptop.

I love sport but have absolutely no interest in Gary Lineker, Sue Barker et al. harping on for two hours.  I can barely watch a full 90 minutes of football on the TV without getting bored so this would be unbearable!  Sarah's already taken down the number for Jessica Ennis and is chomping at the bit to vote.  Who knows what she'd do if there wasn't an Athletics representative on the shortlist!!

I hope AP McCoy wins it.  He is without doubt the greatest jump jockey of all time and this year won the Grand National for the first time in his career.  It was the only major race he hadn't won and coupled with him winning the Champion Jockey title for the 15th straight season it's about time he got the popular recognition his achievements deserve.

What with all the snow it's been a pretty quiet weekend.  The Brentford game was called of on Friday which turned out to be a wise decision.  We had a short, sharp dumping of snow in west London on Friday afternoon and I thought the ref (good old Andy D'Urso!) might have been a bit hasty but yesterday there was a deluge of snow all over the country with all but 8 League and two Premiership games being postponed.

We've not had a home league game since 13th November and unless I can persuade Sarah that it is worth coming back from Bury on the morning of 28th, in time for the Tranmere game at GP, that'll be it for me and Brentford in 2010.  We're away at Yeovil on Boxing Day which, weather permitting, gives us a decent chance of continuing out fine away form.  We won 2-0 at Southampton last weekend to push the continuous away victory run up to five.  Andy Scott rather cheekily called it our most comfortable away win of the season.  Nothing like rubbing salt into a defeated opponents wounds!!

We did play at home against Charlton on Tuesday in the Southern Area Semi-Final of the Johnson's Paint Trophy and sneaked through 3-1 on penalties after a 0-0 draw.  Thankfully Extra Time there is no extra time and we should really have won the match in the 90 minutes.  Richard Lee saved the first three Charlton penalties, the second and third saves were world class.  Watch the highlights if you don't believe me ;)  Exeter await in the two-legged Area Final and hopefully we'll get through to our first game at the new Wembley.


This year will be the first time I've spent Christmas with Sarah in Bury.  I've been up for New Year before but never for the big festive event.  It'll be a marked change from the quiet Malcolm Christmas' I'm used to with aunties, uncles, grandparents and cousins turning up to the Bell household throughout the day.  Looking at the forecast it looks like we'll be buzzing up in Meg a day earlier than I expected, maybe there is hope of a morning of 28th return after all!

Oh here we go.  Fat boy Corden is rolling out on to the stage to do his Smithy routine again!  Surely it's been done to death now!!  It can only mean there is a World Cup review on the way, great!

Living deep in QPR territory the snow has given the locals ample opportunity to add their ever so special tag to stationary street furniture.  With them sitting pretty (although not quite as pretty as 10 days ago having lost their first two league of the season against Watford and Leeds) sightings of the blue and white hoops are becoming ever more frequent.  Fair play to them though, and it'll be a real achievement for them to make it back into the top tier having been out of it for almost 15 years.

If QPR do go up all three LBHF teams will be in the Premiership and we'll be the only west London team not feasting on the millions of pounds available at the top table of English football.

Faced with all that I thought it was only fair that me and Sarah had the opportunity to put our own little footballing messages across.

Not quite as bold as the scribblings on a few of the cars down the road but they made me smile earlier today when I saw them again and will no doubt do so again tomorrow while I walk the mile and a half to work in W14.

It's the simple things that keep us football fans happy eh!?!

It's almost time for The Apprentice final so I'd best wrap this up.

Tony McCoy has just won Sports Personality of the Year.  Hopefully Stella will make it two out of two for me tonight :)