Heat Wave

Not a whole lot happening in the world of Cam today, except that it is still hot as Hades here in South Texas (and the rest of the US apparently). It will be over 100 again in Chicago today. I love that city, but would not want to be there right now! Temperatures in the 80’s would be a welcome break, but that won’t happen any time soon as we don’t get cool fronts down here until about October or November.

Like the Israeli strikes on Hezbollah, the Cole saga is intensifying with Cole reporting to training in London (while everyone else is in Austria) and leaving only an hour later claiming to be ill. Cole seems to be staging a standoff against the club in order to be transferred elsewhere. I don’t care how good the kid is, the way he has treated the club over the last year is horrible and I hope he is on his way out for a tidy sum soon enough.

Vieira looks to be jumping off the Old Lady sinking ship as Juventus are being relegated to Serie B. Reports are that he wants to move to Old Trafford, but I don’t really see him playing for Fergie and ManU. Stranger things have happened in football.

Finally, in my quest for more football, I have signed up for DirecTV and it should be installed tomorrow evening!!! I am now going to get Fox Soccer Channel, GolTV (which carries Arsenal TV programming, YEAH!) and Setanta (PPV matches, UEFA matches, and Championship matches). I am a bit excited about it all and happy to be rid of crappy Time Warner Cable.

And to keep the Ian Holloway link going, here are some more great quotes:

“It's very difficult to bring in players with the current rules and even if you want to bring in a loan you often have to pay loan fees.”

“When their man was sent off, it seemed to wake up the crowd and give them someone to get their teeth into and fortunately for us that was the referee,”