All Sport Report

It has been a busy weekend for sport, with 3 key matches coming to a close on a global scale:

Formula 1 - The Flying Fin - Kimi Raikonnen, pips British rookie Lewis Hamilton and last years champion Fernando Alonso in the final race at Interlagos, Brazil. Kimi had not lead the championship since the first race, however he finished with a phenominal 2nd half to the season and beat the feuding McClarens who drove themselves out of the points repeatedly during the final races in a bid to best each other.

MLB - the Boston Red Sox defeated Cleveland 11-2 in game 7 of the ALCS, firing them into the World Series. They scored and impressive 6 runs in the bottom of the 8th to clinch the victory.

Rugby World Cup - South Africa become world champions defeating England 15-6, amid the outcries of a “dubious” decision by the video referee that disallowed what appeared to be an England try, (which would have, at the time, cut the score from 9-3 to 9-8) the springboks captivated a dream world cup in which they cruised through the entire competition, and ending Englands dream of back to back world cups, and the opportunity to do so by winning 3 consecutive games as the underdogs (beating Australia in the 1/4 finals and home nation France in the semi’s)

In the NFL, the Patiots moved to 7-0 beating the Dolphins, who move to 0-7 for the first time in franchise history, this was made worse by the loss of offensive playmaker Ronnie Brown for the season.
The Cowboys bounced back from their defeat by the Pats to best the Vikings 24-14 and move to 6-1 heading into their bye week, the NFC East is now becoming a 2 horse race as the Giants moved to 5-2 beating the 49ers.
On Monday night the Colts came off of their own bye week and beat the Jaguars, it was almost like they hadn’t gone anywhere.

Its the week i most certainly have been waiting for, after all, being a big follower of American Football, i’ve never been to watch an NFL team play, and this Sunday, i will be sitting in the plush new seats at Wembley Stadium eagerly watching 1 1/2 decent teams play a regular season game, the New York Giants (1 team) “at” the Miami Dolphins (the 1/2 team…i don’t mean it as an insult, but without starting QB Trent Green and RB Ronnie Brown through injuries and trading away WR Chris Chambers, this year will be a struggle even to get a couple of wins, and i dont think any Dolfan will even try to pull me up on that one).

And finally, in tonights European Champions League:
Manchester United beat Dynamo Kiev 4-2, 2 Christiano Ronaldo goals lifted the Red Devils above the Ukrainians in a convincing win. Making Man Utd one of the few teams who have beaten Kiev at home in the Champions League.
Arsenal beat Slavia Prague 7-0, a margin of victory that suprised even big headed manager Arsene Wenger, with the young Theo Walcott playing supreme throughout, scoring two goals.
Rangers drew with Barcelona 0-0, while a 7-0 victory may be phenominal, the biggest kudos has to go to Scottish side Rangers, who not only managed to draw against easily one of the best teams in the world, but also came close several times to beating them.

Man Utd. and Arsenal are both topping their 4 team groups with 9 points each, but its Rangers who are the shock side at the moment in their own group currently 2nd with 7 points, joint with Barcelona. And while nobody has been able to score against Barca, Rangers have conceded once, and in a group with French side Lyon and Stuttgart, Rangers have every possibility of qualifying from the group stages.