Life after Politics

Giving up blogging cold turkey is difficult, especially when you keep seeing things buried in the English papers that deserve broadcast to the wider public... so despite the election, life goes on, especially in the world of sport. Here the news is abuzz with Paula Radcliffe in the NY marathon today. Will she rise or fall? And it seems the Gunners are in a race for the Premiership. Where was Hornby for the latest shocker at Selhurst Park against, wait for it, Crystal Palace? Wonderful article on the game in the Observer but the money quotes are the opening and closing paragraphs. The last two sentences especially, perhaps the best defence of a drawn result I have yet come across:

"The Americans hate it - like kissing your sister, they say, so unsatisfying do they deem it - but the draw in sport can be an honorable achievement. Arsenal will not see it as such, as they ceded the Premiership leadership, but Crystal Palace certainly should." ... "Within another minute Palace should have been ahead, this time Lakis blazing the ball over from close range after Johnson had skiped past Cole and crossed low. Arsenal had a couple of chances to win the game themselves, Kiraly twice coming to the rescue, with a one-handed savefrom the substitute Robin van Persie's low shot then reaching the same player's chip after Reyes had scooped a neat ball into his path. It would have been unjust, however. Long live the draw."

Unjust, indeed.