I can take or leave Michael Clarke, he doesn’t inspire me as a player or a potential and seemingly future captain of Australian cricket at this stage. It may be because he is younger than me, at 30 I clearly should be captain of Australia before this young 26 year old upstart. I have spoken to a few friends of mine who are older than Ricky Ponting and they seem to feel the same way about him. Just a fact of life I guess, the younger people coming through will always take your chance at glory away from you.

I have watched Ricky Hatton fight a few times now and I am quite looking forward to him coming up against ‘pretty boy’ Floyd Mayweather this Sunday. Ricky is a tough scrapping type of fighter and Mayweather is a technically sound, keep away counter attack type of fighter. I hope these ingredients provide a good fight with a Hatton knockout in later rounds. My money will be on a Hatton victory at juicy odds.

News on the street is that the McLaren F1 team are back in discussions with Fernando Alonso for a possible return to the team next year. Is Ron Denis smoking crack?! This would have to be one of the stupidest things I have ever heard and I can not see it happening. Michael Schumacher is more likely to turn out for McLaren next year than Alonso!!