Songs on the Bridge - 5

Music is my radar - Blur
Secret Agent - Tony Allen

Run Rabbit Ron

So, buck-toothed multi-millionaire Christiano Ronaldo is being allowed his dream move to Real Madrid? A world record fee for football's very own Greg Louganis. We should of course be neither surprised nor particularly bothered by this development.

Madrid's position as a state funded team has been known for years (any team that counted President Franco as number one fan should always be viewed with extreme contempt) and their desparation to catch up with the magnificent Barcelona (No shirt sponsor, save UNICEF - says it all) has driven them to this point. Sign Kaka (by all accounts a very genuine person) and follow him up with a talented, preening, twenty goal a season cheat!

Great news for United, 80 mil will go a short way to paying off their vast debt and a long way to signing 3 decent players (A goalkeeper, centre and right back are required for a start) and Adidas (Madrid's kit sponsor). Not good news for Primera Liga defenders and Real Madrid's insurers.

Prediction - Ronaldo injured within 8 matches out for majority of first season. Barcelona to win Primera again.

Inner Sydney Life - 1

I normally wake up about ten to six (5:50 always looks much earlier when written down). My first glimpse of Sydney is out over the Spit Bridge. The traffic rolls down the hill from Seaforth, flutters across the bridge and then grinds its way up the hill. Having busied myself with being a husband and a father for an hour or more. I manage to lock myself into a sweet little musical coccoon, just me and my i-pod.

The tunes tumble, rumble, jolt, shoot, mumble and fizz out of the speakers, tunes that bring forth sharp stabs of nostalgia, sweet shivers of delight or frequent bemused looks. The music is my soundtrack as I take as many backroads as I could possibly desire. The aim is to keep moving, however far away from my ultimate destination the moving traffic takes me.

Mosman, Cremorne and Neutral Bay slide by in a roadmix of folk, jazz, punk and reggae. It's my life. A world full of music and traffic...

Songs on the Bridge - 4

Inner City Blues - Good life
Bttw 90 - A Certain Ratio
Coup - 23 Skidoo

Songs on the Bridge - 3

Too marvelous for words - Frank Sinatra
Houses in motion - Talking Heads

Songs on the Bridge - 2

Today's selection:

Julie's been working for the drug squad - The Clash
Realise - Part-time Heroes

Songs on the Bridge - 1

I drive over the Sydney Harbour Bridge every day and my i-pod always throws up 1,2 or even 3 songs, depending on the queues. So, to celebrate the soundtrack of the 2nd most iconic bridge in the world. I give you today's selection.

I must be mad - The Craig
King Tim III - The Fatback Band
If not for you - Bob Dylan

Chelsea v Barcelona

Shithouse!

Top Ten Cover Versions

The Clash - Pressure Drop
The Jam - Get Yourself Together
Lulu - Feelin' Alright
Sex Pistols - No Fun
Talking Heads - Take me to the river
Billy Bragg - That's Entertainment
EBTG - The only living boy in New York
Aztec Camera - Jump
Johnny Cash/Joe Strummer - Redemption Song
Joy Division - Louie Louie

Aussie Guus gets off to ok start

A good result to start with. Still concerns over the defence. I'd prefer to see Mancienne given a run rather than Alex. Also Drogba was still painful to watch. Still not convincing enough. With Arsenal & liverpool stuffing up too it was a pretty good start!

Big Phil - Not that good

The pundits will start harping on about the demise of Big Phil Scolari, asking how could they sack someone whose team were fourth in the Premiership, in the last 16 of the Champions league and still in the FA Cup.

It is simple, the football they have played has been substandard, the players are unfit and unmotivated. Chelsea have had the resources to be the most successful club in England but they have squandered them. Poor transfer policy combined with stagnant football has seen them arrive at this juncture. My only hope is that the new manager is tough enough to win the dressing room...

Lux Interior - RIP

And then there were three...

Sunglasses after dark!

Bill Frindall - RIP

Another bearded wonder gone within a matter of hours. What is going on? I think we should be told...

...time moves on another notch!

John Martyn - RIP

This is just getting ridiculous now. First Adrian Mitchell and now John Martyn. As they say over here that is "Sh*thouse".