No shock to report in Bristol for the football as West Ham breezed to a 2-1 win at Rovers although the game was overshadowed by the broken leg sustained by Kieron Dyer. Sky did dhow one replay straight after the incident but after that clearly decided that once was enough. Even this paled into insignificance with what happened at half time in the Forest-Leicester game which was called off after Foxes defender Clive Clarke collapsed with what was called a `serious illness`. On the same day that Seville star Antonio Puerta sadly died having collapsed on the pitch at the weekend due to a heart attack aged 22, then this really is a black time for the game in general.

I know I moan about it every year but it would be great to have the Champions League group stage draw whittled down to a running time that doesn't involve a toilet break for those of us watching. In fact I've come to the conclusion that it serves two purposes. The first is to decide who plays who whilst the second is an internal joke to try and make each draw slightly longer than the previous years. Do we need to have Europe's best players (who votes for these anyway?) to make the draw and surely a list of the clubs on a giant screen to remind of who is in would be fine rather than a snippet from each club resulting in most of us not even recognising the badges of many clubs in the lower pots. I know they have to keep clubs from the same nations apart but the bottom line is that we could do the draw much quicker with a set of numbered ping-pong balls in the living room.