Football Diary
By Patrick O’Connor

I live about 20 minutes walk away from Meadow Lane, the home of League One side Notts County, who also happen to be the world’s oldest football club.

They are a modest operation, their last home game attracted a crowd of just under 5,000.

RUGBY Union has never been a sport I particularly warmed to, mainly because I found it too stop-start and couldn’t fathomed out its rules.

It also has a quirky side to it. Take the decision of Saracens to toss a coin to decide whether Richard Wigglesworth or Neil de Kock would start at scrum-half for last Saturday’s Premiership final against Leicester.

THE most dreadful aspect about the controversial goal scored by Nani for Manchester United in their 2-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford on Saturday was not that it was allowed, because there are arguments both ways on that issue, but the pathetically weak behaviour of referee Mark Clattenburg.