[theo_luddite]

To the strains of Sheffield's finest entertaining the Essex boys and girls (though like me they are mostly a tad more wrinkly than we all used to be) at what used to be Prawns in the Pork, the Tennis wrapped up in Noo Yark even if it took ages to get everyone in thanks to some old codger turning up in the Rolex hostility boxes.

Aryna Sabalenka won the womens title on Saturday, point to SCO so he's no longer tail-end Charlie and Carlos Alcaraz won in 4 sets on Sunday, scoring points for Snoots, themaclad and SHEP, putting Snoots and SHEP at the top of the pile, but there's only 3 points between us.

In motorsport, Crash won in Monza despite having to give 1st place back to Norris after taking a short cut on one of the opening corners. The two wheeled chaps were in Barcelona for Moto GP with the Marquez brothers finishing 1st and 2nd, the World Superbikes were in France and The British version seemed to dodge the downpours we had in Wolvo at Donnington.

In other two wheeled sport, the pedal pushing lads on the push-rods were divided between La Vuelta in Spain, which still has another week to go and the Tour of Britain. This marked the final professional race for Geraint Thomas, fittingly ending in Cardiff. The Tour was won by Steven Williams of the Israel-Premier Tech Team. That team has been the subject of a few protests in La Vuelta with at least one stage being cut short. There was also a protest of sorts on the final stage between Newport and Cardiff up the The Valleys when a heard of cows blocked the road for a while. They left a pile up rather than causing a pile up allegedly. 'A Goodyear for the Roses' as Elvis Costello once almost sang.

The quarter final for the Egg Chasing will be contested next weekend between
New Zealand v Seth Efrika
Canucks v Aussies
France v Ireland
England v Scotland
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The Walker Cup singles are still in play with GB & Ireland needing 6 from 10, to get 13.5 to win but at the moment only lead in 2 games.
The US only need 5 after the Sunday morning foursomes left the score USA 8.5, UK&I 7.5.

England v Andorra made Town v Pish Posh's 1st half look like a classic. Nuff sed.

The NFL started again this weekend, but that's another for next season. The CFL is well underway and I'll try to make sense of that next week before their play-offs get anywhere close to fruition.