The early bird catches the game Feel like I am in desperate need of a huge lie in but tomorrow morning I will attempt to raise myself out of bed with my expected hangover to get to the pub for the 6.45am kick off. Fado's is only a 5 minute walk from my apartment and at least they sell proper tea.

I agree with my fellow ex-pat New York Addick that suddenly we have become worth watching again with our new found formation. I am hoping that we exploit Shaun Bartlett's current rush of form & confidence and reinstate him to the line up with Jeffers on the bench and not Lisbie as he has more chance of scoring a Christmas No. 1 hit than at Old Trafford.

I have a couple of more mates here with me this weekend so there is no chance of me getting out my pipe and slippers and sitting in front of ABC's Desperate Housewifes. Supposedly rated the 3rd best show amongst men in the US, the not so clever folk at ABC took advantage of this on Monday night and had British born star Nicollette Sheridan in a men's locker room dressed in just a white towel. She then lost the towel and jumped into the arms of Philadelphia Eagles star Terrell Owens.

This being America you saw no nudity whatsoever of course but this being America it caused massive uproar and has led most news stories all week. ABC already has a 5 second delay on it's Monday Night Football programme (can you imagine Sky doing that?) following the flash of Janet Jackson's nipple at the Superbowl but at least someone at the New York Times agrees with me that this country is over obsessed with political correctness.
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