Keep it down the football's about to start.

So these riots are getting a bit much, there was talk of postponing the cricket! And even going as far as cancelling the footie this weekend in effected areas. I mean these young upstart looters are giving good old fashioned football thuggery a bad name.  So much so that 200 “Millwall fans” turn up in Eltham (South London) to ‘protect’ the high street from potential looters, it’s always Millwall fans isn’t it? It could have been Glasgow and it would have still been “Millwall Fans”.  I’d like to believe their intentions were good so this feeling of pride doesn’t sink into one of guilt. The fact that they caused the police an extra burden (as any vigilante group would) is, I suppose, secondary to the fact that you can only push people so far before something’s going to give.  Though this is a both and sickening and fascinating discussion point, this is a light hearted sports blog so that's what we’ll talk about; sport.... You see the thing is it’s no coincidence that the effected areas are amongst the poorest in the country. There's no easy answer to determine why this has happened on the scale that it has. The core organisation can only succeed with the sheep like obedience of the opportunist, without them you don’t have the masses and the upraising can be curbed, or so I read on the Guardian website, anyway football… I’ll be gutted if they cancel any of the opening Premier League fixtures. The football League got underway last week and that was exciting enough. The Scottish League had their mandatory 3 days break before resuming. It’s all kicking off and I can’t wait. 

The safe bet again this year is whoever finishes above Man United will win the league. I’m sure this will be the most competitive in years, City and Chelsea have both strengthened. Spurs have retained some key players which is probably more important than any new signing. Wenger clearly concerned that his first team average age was creeping over 20 has bought the next 17 year old wonder kid. I wager Arsenal fans didn’t see that one coming. Liverpool have bought well and by well I mean terribly spending a borrow load of money on dross. So knowing my predictions expect them to challenge for the title. United have added in the key areas and still hope to add Wesley Sneijder, who is the perfect replacement for the retiring Paul Scholes, who been integral to United way of play over the last generation. So here’s hoping that the mindless violence and destruction over the last couple of days that has shamed a nation can give way to something we can all be proud of the most entertaining football league in the world.

Plus well done to the chap that started the #cleanuplondon campaign. The best in people can often come out as a result of the worse in people. That sounds like something out of super hero movie. Oh that's right it's a piece of dialogue from my self penned 'umbrella man'. One man wages war on the English changeable weather. I'm so very lonely.