FIA and Hill exploit rule book to to deny old nemesis

Schumacher punished for ambitious final corner move

Six races into his comeback and Michael Schumacher has had to deal with the media’s claims that he is well past his sell by date.

Three years out of your day job will mean you are likely to take some serious time to get back up to speed, but saddled with a lack of testing and an underperforming car, Schumacher’s comeback continues to be ambling rather than racing towards success.

But Schumacher’s performance in this weekends Monaco Grand Prix proves there is still life in the seven times world champion..

Absorbing is not the word

Am I the only person utterly sick of hearing commentators refer to football games as ‘absorbing’?

It seems to me that this is their politically correct way to describe a game that is, in fact, boring.

Using last night’s Europa League final as a prime example we were constantly forced to listen to Five commentator Dave Woods tell us that the game was a thoroughly absorbing affair.

Fulham join the growing list of ‘heroic’ British losers

Diego Forlan celebrates his dramatic extra time winner

The clock ticked six minutes past ten on a dark and miserable Wednesday night in Hamburg when Diego Forlan’s deflected shot trickled past the outstretched hand of Mark Schwarzer, handing Atletico Madrid the inaugural Europa League trophy.

This was also the time that Fulham joined the long list of heroic British losers.

FA Cup to throw up another surprise?

The FA Cup resumes this weekend at the quarter final stage and for those who said that the cup was dead may stand to eat their words.

With just one of the ‘big four’ left in the competition it’s shaping up to be another unpredictable competition and we could see another unfancied team lifting the trophy at Wembley in May like Portsmouth did on their fairytale run to the cup in 2008.

Capello says players are picked on form, but that’s not really the case

Should someone like Theo Walcott be in the England side ahead of more deserving players?

When he arrived in a blaze of glory following England’s embarrassing failure to qualify for Euro 2008, Fabio Capello made the claim that he would favour picking players on form rather than their reputation.

But time and time again this claim seems to have gone unnoticed and unchallenged and you only need to look at the England team the other night to see that Capello is just the same as every other England manager.

Canada strikes gold in the women’s ice hockey, but should it be an Olympic sport?

Canada celebrate winning gold in Vancouver

So there we have it, a fortnight of great sporting drama is complete, the Olympic flame has been extinguished and the IOC flag taken down to be stored in the loft ahead of the London games in 2012.

And while the host nation won a record 14 gold medals, one gold medal in particular was as inevitable as the lack of snow in Vancouver.

The women’s ice hockey tournament once again came to the most predictable of conclusions in the most predictable of competitions, with the Canadian women’s team striking gold for the third time in a row.