Dennis Bergkamp

Jack: "Theres a money lender in Craiglang" Boaby: *whistles theme song to Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

First run in a week after injuring my back lifting weights at the gym last Thursday. Managed to plod round 5 miles without any discomfort so looking forward to a small run tomorrow and a longer one on Sunday. Managed to lose my iPod during the week so wasn't looking forward to running without it but I actually found it better/more enjoyable, anyone else found the same?

Not much of an ale drinker so not really been keeping on eye on this thread so this may have been recommended (or slated) before. My mates girlfriend works for an event company and managed to take 50 of these so we got tore into some the other night. Had a quick look online and its sold in Waitrose for £1.67 a bottle. Exmoor Beast Strong Ale - Fucking excellent. .

299 seems a tall order for me. Tremendous bowling from Ryan Harris again though, theres a decent team between the two teams out there! Disappointing from Matt Prior again with the bat though, he's another that needs some criticism.

I think England will win this one if they manage to get another 80 to their overnight total. The bowlers, particularly Swann, will have fun on the last day. Fortunately Ian Bell has saved England again but that can't hide the fact that there are too many players not contributing enough this series and if it wasn't for Australia being so ordinary they would have lost this series. Players like Bairstow, Bresnan and perhaps even Trott should be in danger of being dropped for the next test.

The Gold Mine Effect by Rasmus Ankerson who goes around the world to find out why so many top class sportspeople come from small areas, such as sprinters from Jamaica, footballers from Brazil, runners from Kenya. Very good read.

Conor Hogg and Robbie McNab are attacking midfielders and often play on the wing, Ryan Blair plays centre midfield, Scott Shepherd and Botti Biabi are strikers and Michael Martin plays centrally in an attacking role.

Connor's an attacking midfielder.

Ran the Great winter 5k in Edinburgh this morning. Far too many beers and mince pies over Christmas resulted in 29.49. Never felt so lethargic on a run!

I recently ran the Edinburgh 10k and having signed up for a few more runs, i've noticed my motivation is so much higher when i've got something to work towards. Before there was no real purpose to going to the gym/for a run other than getting a bit fitter I would get quite bored with the routine and would take a day off which would then turn into 2, then 3 then 4 and so on. Having a marathon in the summer, with 3 or 4 smaller races in between then is keeping up the motivation just now.

I remember watching the Pars up at Dens Park a few years ago. Alex Rae was midway through something like a 6 match touchline ban but named himself as a sub, allowing him to be involved on the touchline. He lost the plot and was sent to the stands again, resulting in the SFA throwing the book at him!