Jermaine Pennant For Madrid?

Whilst watching Sky Sports News today I noticed that Real Madrid would be interested in signing 'out of favour' Liverpool winger Jermaine Pennant, that's if they don't sign Antonio Valencia of Wigan.

Why would a prestigious club like Madrid swoop for Pennant? Yes, he's a good player and I'd be glad to see him playing for Madrid... but this is the last player that I thought they would target, due to him having limited games at Liverpool.

Even the Valencia (who has had a rather successful season) rumour, was perceived by me as a slight shocker. Both Pennant and Valencia are good players, but for them to be linked to moves to Real Madrid, for me, seems a bit far fetched...

These rumours follow the signing of Lassana Diarra from Portsmouth, which wasn't envisaged. Does this mean that Madrid are struggling to attract the big name stars? Or are they just holding their funds for a substantial bid for Cristiano Ronaldo in the summer?.. It sure seems a bit fishy.

The text before was written a couple of hours ago. I have now just read from Times Online that Valencia has agreed to join Real Madrid in a deal worth £14 Million. Pennant seems to be set to join Wigan, to replace Valencia. Now that sounds slightly more realistic...

Here's the link to the Times Online story:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/article5415823.ece

Steven Gerrard Arrested?

According to BBC News Steven Gerrard has been arrested after an assault at a hotel bar in the early hours of this morning.

Wow!.. I never could imagine Gerrard doing such a thing. In his post match interviews, he seemed to be the innocent type, plus I've never really seen him get angry on the pitch. Well I guess football and his personal/outside life aren't intertwined.

All this comes after he has put some remarkable displays in for Liverpool over the past couple of weeks. Will he get sent down? Banned for a few matches?.. Or will he most likely just get away with it?.. Only time will tell...

Here's the link to the story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7802932.stm

Fully Deserved For Chris Hoy

Yesterday saw Chris Hoy win BBC's Sports Personality. It was fully deserved because he had a remarkable Olympic games. Off the top of my head, he won the most gold medals for team GB.

It is not just his success alone that makes him worthy. Even though he won, he still respected the achievements of both Lewis Hamilton and Rebecca Adlington who finished second and third respectively. The speech was both emotional and inspiring. It was defiantly well said.

Well done Chris Hoy.

Same Old Forest

Proceedings yesterday saw Forest come close a number of times. Wes Morgan had two chances in the first half, one being a header which looped onto the top of the bar, the other a close range, 'smash' of a shot, which Rachubka, the Blackpool keeper, remarkably held.

Forest, including the under par Joel Lynch made a series of mistakes. Joel Lynch was subbed off early on in the first half, to be replaced by Julian Bennett who was making his comeback.

Overall, Forest missed a ton of chances, another notable effort seeing Garner's header being well saved by the Blackpool keeper. Even though Blackpool were never really in the game, I honestly thought they would have snatched the win. The draw wasn't good enough as we are still four points off safety. Forest should have won the match.

For me, Brendan Moloney has to be Forest's man of the match. He showed a drive to win that very few of our players seemed to possess yesterday. He made attacking, darting forward runs and took on their defence.

Is This For Real

People have had their opinions on Alexandra's rise through X Factor this year... A person who I'm not going to name said that "She always makes victory speeches before she has actually won... like she's going to defiantly win..."

After her performance tonight she starts crying and explains how she couldn't have done it without her mentor Cheryl Cole, plus other things that I have now forgotten.

Well, I believe that she will now get a substantial number of votes just for crying. And I wondered why Ruth Lorenzo got booted off the show last week...