Last on MOTD: Not much Peace

GARY Megson is bound to come up against his former clubs now and again. He does, after all, have 15 of them.

WAGs, obesity, depression and Jimmy Hill

IT’S not often that a three-week-old article in the Doncaster Star gets me thinking. But then it’s not often that the Chancellor openly admits that the economy is in meltdown. These are mysterious times, as Tina Cousins once sang.

I said a terrible thing

I CAN’T say I really know Chris Price. I saw him in the press box at a couple of Rochdale games at the start of last season, or maybe it was the end of the season before. The brief impression I got was of a decent, enthusiastic, conscientious lad. I would never have had him down as the sort of person who would one day make headlines around the world.

Ping pong’s coming home

THIS is all Ian Hislop’s fault, you know. It doesn’t seem like five minutes since Boris Johnson was stumbling his way through Have I Got News For You? Now, all of a sudden, he appears to have become the face of the 2012 Olympics.

Last on MOTD: Hello, Ray

PAUL Ince had a rather novel way of doing post-match interviews when he was Macclesfield manager. It wasn’t the normal way of going about things in League Two at all.

At least we’re not last on Match of the Day any more

SOMETIMES, you have to take the positives anywhere you can get them. Here’s Daily Telegraph journalist Nick Britten, a Derby fan, writing in the programme for today’s match against Southampton:

“For the first time in a year, I could watch Match of the Day last week without having to hide behind the sofa.

“Time is football’s greatest healer, and how refreshing it was to see a Premier League team being laughed at and sneered at that wasn’t Derby County.”

Superman II

THERE were seven other athletes in the Olympic men’s 200 metres final. I’d struggle to tell you how any of them did. There was only really two contenders in the race – Usain Bolt and the clock.

I thought we were supposed to be rubbish

EXCUSE me, but I was under the impression, going into the Olympics, that Great Britain would be lucky to win a single gold medal. And yet here we are, 10 days into the Games, and we’ve won 12 of the blighters.

Last on MOTD: Same time, same team, new year

HOW long can you stretch out a joke before it starts to get too thin? At least another nine months, I’m hoping. And so the Gubbometer returns.

Just a little bit

WATCHING Sky Sports News can be a surreal experience at the best of times. Because of the channel’s reluctance to publicise any event that Sky doesn’t have the rights to, you get a very skewed view of the sporting world.