9th time lucky for Matlock!

Occasionally, when working as a sports journalist, a story that makes you chuckle comes along and really puts into perspective what a bunch of soft pansies professional footballers can be. Remember the kerfuffle when Arsenal and Liverpool had to replay their Carling Cup game because they were worried about fixture congestion? Tonight Matlock Town will try for the 9th time to get their unibond League Cup second round match against Gresley played. It's been postponed 7 times and abandoned once, including on Saturday which was supposed to be quarter final day! They can't even play on their own pitch because it's still waterlogged so they have to borrow Belper's! Anyway, good luck Matlock and let's pray it doesn't end in a draw or the replay may have to be played next season!

I have definitive evidence that record companies are putting artificial intelligence into CD's to try and get us all to buy Ipods. How many of you own a CD with only two or three good tracks on it? And how many of you, when you try and play that shiny disc in your car stereo, find that the same two or three tracks jump all over the place whilst the other 12 or 13 crap tracks all work fine? The truth is out there...

Don't miss "Life on Mars" tonight and to get you in the mood,

"LIFE ON MARS" GENE HUNT QUOTE OF THE DAY...

(To a bunch of kids playing football in the street) "Right, anything happens to this motor, I'll come around your houses and stamp on all your toys. Got it? Good kids."