Hey there sports fans!

England won a game of football! Hooray hurrah! They comprehensively beat Bulgaria 4-0. It was all looking pretty good I have to say. After the World Cup debacle they needed to put on a good game and they did. But does one drubbing of a not-very-good team constitute a revival? Should we be reassured? I, for one, am not. I have no idea why England never really cut it, no idea why they choke at big events, or just aren't quite good enough - if I did I'd be a lot richer than I am - but it's a definite pattern. We have some of the best players in the world - Rooney, Gerrard, Ferdinand, Terry, etc - but when they come together on a football pitch they might as well be a bunch of plumbers on a Sunday afternoon in the field behind Asda.

Cricket. Yay! We just can't stop beating those cheating blaggards Pakistan. A comfortable victory by five wickets. I was through with my tennis match (which I lost horribly, by the way) in lovely Alfold in time for tea and Sky Sports live cricket in the bar. Excellent afternoon in the sunshine. England fielding is a beautiful thing. It's got to that comfortable stage where even when they make a mistake (two dropped catches today) you just chuckle and say 'Oh England!' in an I'm-not-bothered-because-they'll-get-him-next-time way. The fact that I no longer worry when they're fielding is the best compliment I could give. It's just classy. The bowling is consistently effective, the catching is usually fabulous, their timing and instincts are second to none... I just love to watch them field. When it comes to batting, however, it's a different story. Sweaty palms. Sickly feelings in the stomach. Luckily today the bowling was such that the batting could afford to be a little basic and England did what they had to do. Lovely lovely cricket.

Tennis... I'm listening to the Ray-ray/Wawrinka match as we speak. Very very weird. Jonathan Overend is actually shouting. He's completely enraged by Ray-ray's bizarre behaviour and Wawri's multiple injury madness. The third set has descended into near anarchy when Wawri finally takes it to give him a two sets to one lead over Ray-ray. He had better get over whatever the hell is wrong with him because he's looking like limping pathetically out of this years US Open. Just so odd. Ray-ray has been foot-faulted four times in this match. Four. Never have I seen or heard of Ray-ray foot-faulting in all his years of pro tennis. I wish I could be watching this match. It sounds completely mad. The drama.

What else? GoNads beat Simon in straight sets, Fed has eased through, Fish played an epic match to beat an inspired Clement (really loving Fish this year), Djoko ended Blake's impressive run and Melzer set up a fourth round match against the Fed. In the ladies Clijsters demolished Ivanovic, Venus plowed on, Wozni seems to be destroying everyone she meets, scary Schia is plugging on with another comfortable win, and fourth seed Jelena Jankovic is out out out having lost in three sets to Kaia Kenepi.

Ray-ray is about to lose...

I'll keep you blogged...