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09/11/07 GET THIS PARTY STARTED

After a shambolic weekend of watching last week's X-Factor and only finding the performance by Rhydian as a laugh, this week it looks even worse. Same Difference being the worst choice as they are heading for a huge train wreck when they sing Scissor Sisters...On the subject of Same Difference, how can anyone be THAT happy? everything to the girl makes her go "Wow!", she never stops smiling and she can't sing at all. Last week they went fishing for that sympathy vote.... "I was bullied in school and all I wanted to do was sing, and now I've got my chance". Does she really wonder why she was bullied? Someone like that only appears on ABC1 or Paramount, at least the other guy can sing...

And even Louis Walsh was suffering from Amnesia when Futureproof did their performance, "The two guys on the end looked liked book-ends" as well as making comments about the fact they couldn't dance, and that was a bad thing?! Was he watching Futureproof or a Boyzone/Westlife DVD? Last time I checked, they couldn't dance either, every time they performed they all pulled up stools and sat like they were waiting for a large Scotch from Tony Hutchinson at "Il Nosh" whilst he waited for a table for 5 to free up.

Book-ends... Ronan Keating, Shane Lynch, Stephen Gately, and who were the other two??

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31/10/07 TERRY VENABLES

What a complete muppet, according to the news he has said that Steve McClaren should be allowed to continue to manage England even if they don't manage to qualify for Euro 2008 and make a complete and utter shambles out of the country for the first time in 14 years. And people still wonder why he was sacked after Euro 96? (Maybe 11 draws in 23 games might be a suggestion)

So it all rests on Israel getting at least a point against Russia at home, so basically, we need a team who are already out of the competition with hardly anything to play for, and a good friendship with Russia to get a point? Not a chance in a month of Sundays, the olde "shake of the hand" will be more than likely to happen when the two meet in November, and to the shock of everybody, Euro 2008 won't be of interest to the Engish public...

However, North of the border in a place called Scotland, there lies a huge challenge on the shoulders of 10 boys in blue, and one in yellow... The challenge of beating World champions Italy in order to qualify for Euro 2008. Sadly, the Scots have a real uphill struggle here, last month I would have said Scotland might have snuck through, but after being outplayed by Georgia of all places (Not the one in the US where the devil was last spotted), they need to win! But last time I checked Scotland always seem to fade at the final hurdle. Only 4 years ago they went to Holland needing a draw or to lose by 1 goal in order to qualify for Euro 2004... They went on to lose 6-0...

To the West, there is a seperate country from the UK, known as the Republic Of Ireland, and they are on the lookout for a new manager after Steve Staunton was finally sacked after a poor Euro2008 campaign, and they could still potentially finish 2nd last in their group. I put it down to only getting 1 point in 2 games against Cyprus and leaking 6 goals in them 2 match-ups, but there are other reasons.... Now the talk is all about who the next manager will be, O'Leary, Coppell, Brady? Well Graham Souness has expressed an interest for the post, saying that he was very interested in managing Ireland in their World Cup 2010 campaign... So Coppell or O'Leary it is then.

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30/10/07 HAMILTON TO LEAVE THE UK

Well apparently Lewis Hamilton is tired of living a celebrity lifestyle in the UK claiming that he couldn't even go to a public toilet without somebody following him in for an autograph. (At least it's only an autograph, it could have been George Michael) So now the new "face of British Sport" wants to leave his homeland and move to another country... France? Germany? Italy? Spain? none of those, in fact Hamilton wants to move to Switzerland to avoid all the attention, as his "main rivals" (Raikonnen and Alonso) also live there, so in other words he's following the two richest current drivers over to a country with very low tax rates, are you sure it's just to escape the fame Hamilton?

He said in an interview with Radio Five Live that his dream was always to live in London, and he slept at a friend's house before realising that it wasn't the place for him. (Must have caught a look at his friend's bills then)