Am I right or was that just a bad dream? Certainly The Matrix spoof was the nadir in a long history of ill-advised “comedy” sequences; the only thing that could be ventured in its favour was that Frank Bruno wasn’t involved.
Still, I’ll be tuning in as usual tomorrow night if only to see what Paula Radcliffe is wearing. Even though the sporting highlights will doubtless be hammered to death on the anvil of some producer’s ego, so that the show becomes less a review of the sporting year and more a demonstration of the technical wizardry that can be achieved in a BBC editing suite, there will still be much that is reassuringly familiar, and the annual entrance of Radcliffe has taken over from the annual entrance of Red Rum as a moment to savour.It is a moment, moreover, charged with intoxicating uncertainty. Before proceedings commenced, it was explained that any question pertaining to either Ferguson or Queiroz’s position at the club would bring the press conference to an immediate end although, in retrospect, the Portuguese coach may have been safer extolling his manager’s virtues than heightening the sense of dismay amongst the club’s support.The affable Queiroz was at pains to explain how United had the capacity to salvage their season, an argument supported by progress to second place in the Premiership, despite a catalogue of injury problems, and to the quarter-finals of the Carling Cup following five consecutive domestic victories. United’s despondent manager missed his usual Friday press briefing at the club’s Carrington training ground to attend a funeral, but he must have left his infamous hairdryer behind given the amount of hot air expelled in his absence.
The task of previewing tomorrow’s Premiership fixture with Everton fell upon Queiroz, whose own input is under increased scrutiny following the Champions’ League exit that has deprived United of European football in the second half of the season for the first time since 1995 and its new owners, the Glazer family, of the potential to earn £15m by reaching May’s final in Paris. The defending that was conspicuous by its absence in Lisbon belatedly came to Sir Alex Ferguson’s aid yesterday as Manchester United declared the delicate issue of his future at the club strictly off limits while his assistant, Carlos Queiroz, incredulously spoke of the “great season” in store for the Old Trafford faithful. Apache Tomcat/5.5.25 – Error report HTTP Status 503 – Too many incoming HTTP requeststype Status reportmessage Too many incoming HTTP requestsdescription The requested service (Too many incoming HTTP requests) is not currently available.Apache Tomcat/5.5.25. Apache Tomcat/5.5.25 – Error report HTTP Status 503 – Too many incoming HTTP requeststype Status reportmessage Too many incoming HTTP requestsdescription The requested service (Too many incoming HTTP requests) is not currently available.Apache Tomcat/5.5.25.

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It’s too big at 32 nations, too political, too grossly commercial, and its seeding method might confound the combined de-coding resources of the CIA and MI5, but when the balls came out of the bowls last night there was one certainty: in six months’ time the centre of the universe will unquestionably be Munich at the start of the 18th World Cup. While Sweden will prove tough opponents, there was palpable relief when Paraguay and Trinidad & Tobago were also drawn in England’s Group B. Eriksson has not beaten Sweden in three attempts as England manager ­ his record is one defeat and two draws ­ but the biggest concern from the first-round draw was that the second group match, against Dwight Yorke’s Trinidad & Tobago, will be played in the city of Nuremberg. The southern German city has a historical association with the Nazi movement and has a significant far-right following ­ prompting fears that England’s estimated 100,000-strong support could be provoked into violence..