Fridays roundup

Welcome to the 2nd edition of TTSB.

Since our last post plenty has happened in the world of sport... well not really the world of sport but football mainly!

An apparently innocent millwall fan was stabbed outside Upton park where to the shock of everyone there were wars between rival fans! (that is everyone who hasn't seen one of the many football hooligan films or never heard of west ham and millwall)

Now TTSB being an avid Chelsea fan is aware of the fight culture that football was surrounded by in the 70s and 80s but those days are long gone and the most aggression we have seen at a football match in a decade is screaming "you dirty northern b*stard" over a row of stewards at Liverpool fans last season. (and to be fair they were dirty and northern and probably didn't know who there dads were) Luckily these football riots are things of the past and come around about as often as Spurs winning something so we wont dwell on this for another 2000 words!

Tennis Its the Annual Roger Federer Invitational this week (aka: the US open at flushing medows) Roger Federer is the huge favorite to retain his crown for something like the 38th year in a row............... (6th)

There is plenty of support for Andy Murray who was last years beaten finalist and he has shown in the past he has all the tools to beat federer and has a 6-3 career record against the Suisse legend. However he was taken apart in straight sets by Federer at Cincinnati last week and we cant see anything other than Roger retaining his crown.

Rafael Nadal returns to action for the 1st time since June and although many expect him to be rusty from the layoff we wouldnt be surprised if he finds himself in the latter stages of the tournament.

Football Man Utd take on Arsenal tomorrow in the first BIG4 clash of the season. (after this season we have a feeling it may be called the BIG5 as Man City look set to gatecrash the party)

Arsenal have started well this year (albeit against poor opposition) and whilst they aren't doing a lot different to past seasons they are taking more shots from further than the 6 yard box, and with the addition of vermaelen at the back they look a much more solid defensive unit. Vermaelen hails from the old school of centre halfs, he doesn't try Cruyff turns out of defense or clever passes, if there is a hint of danger he puts the ball in row Z!! TTSB like this approach as although its not pretty it is certainly a fact that if the ball is in row Z the opposition cant score!!

Man Utd have missed Ferdinand and Vidic of late and if they are not fit for Saturday afternoon then Ben Foster could have a very busy time. Ferguson's side haven't looked anything like the force they were last season and the 1-0 loss to burnley illustrates that... They had chances but the people on the end of them (owen, fletcher, nani) didn't finish them and you can bet your last £ that had a certain Perma tanned primadonna by the name of Ronaldo been on the end of any they would have been in the back of the net. Arsenal wont have a better chance to win at Old Trafford than Saturday and it should be a cracker!

Elsewhere Chelsea take on Burnley (a thrashing awaits!) and its hard to see anything other than another convincing blues win. Man City face the struggling Pompey on saturday and they look far too good to slip up at fratton park even with the new Dr Al Fahim in charge (we think he is as much a Dr as Dr.Fox and Dr.Evil) Liverpool have had a surprisingly poor start to the season and a trip to Bolton wont be easy. Gary Megson's side arent really much good but they make it nigh on impossible to play good football!

This weekends best bet....

Sheffield's 37 year old Clinton Woods takes on the unbeaten American Tavoris Cloud (19-0 with 18KOs) for the IBF light heavyweight title tonight and although woods has only lost to the best in Antonio Tarver, Roy Jones Junior and Glen Johnson he is looking slower and we fancy the big hitting Cloud to stop him somewhere between round 5-10

In the cruiserweight (200lbs) division Marco Huck takes on Victor Ramirez for the WBO belt, Huck is a quality operator and has only lost to former Champ Steve Cunningham (a fight in which he was leading until stopped with seconds to go) and will have too much for the un-tested Ramirez.

A double on Huck and Cloud will pay little more than Evs (for a reason - it will probably come in!)

We will take a chance on a Huck and Cloud to win by KO / TKO at 11/1

Thanks for reading!!