Slight baseball deviation… I finally got to see the Pats on TV! Sadly NFL doesn’t have anything like MLB.tv, so those of us over in distant shores have to got to go with whatever’s on Monday Night Football (shown Tuesday morning here) and the playoff games. Great job by Brady. Whoever said he was just a dink-and-dunk short-passer? Clearly the best big-game QB in the business. Huge game by Branch - he likes the big stage, methinks, as does Vrabel. But the Harrison return gets my vote for best moment of the game.
And in news from another sport called football - i.e. what Americans call “soccer” - my favourite English Premier League team Everton lost 1-0 to Charlton over the weekend. Fortunately it was a week of weird results, so excepting Charlton no one from 5th place to Fulham (in 13th place) won, and Everton’s 4th place remains secure for another week. Phew.