(Sorry for that rubbish title!) 18 year old Ding Junhui won his first ever UK Championship. He beat the legend Steve Davis 10-6. I watched the last few frames – a great match.
One thing about Ding though was that he seemed to show no emotion – maybe he is a Vulcan – he could be as well since we cant see the top of ears!! I think he needs a haircut!! When he finally won he did finally manage to crack a smile but it all looked like an uncomfortable smile!
Well done Ding! The first ever player outside the UK to have won the UK championship.
In some other sport news, Chelsea beat Arsenal 2-0. For once I wanted Arsenal to win. It would have meant United were 6 points behind them. A draw would have been good too. Arsenal are now 20 points behind Chelsea (and 11 behind United). It now looks like Chelseas main challengers are United and Liverpool.
Back to the actual match, Arsenal were unlucky with a disallowed goal – it was given for offside but Van Persie was onside and it looks like they gave offside for Henry (who was not ‘active’ in play). Also Essein once again was at the centre of some controvery – looked like he tried to elbow someone and also in another challenge looked like he just tripped someone up. Out of about 3 ‘tackles’ he got 1 yellow card. One other thing to note is that the 2 managers didnt shake hands at the end of the match – Jose just walked straight down the tunnel – Arsene Wenger said it wasnt deliberate but I think it was!!
Today was the last Top 40 chart before next weeks Christmas charts. No. 1 was the JCB song by Nizlopi. Wasnt too sure to start with but I like it now. It reached No. 1 and beat Westlife to the top (so thats one good thing!!). However the general state of the UK charts is rubbish. Evidence of this is the Crazy Frog – Jingle Bells/U Can’t Touch This is No. 5. What on earth is going on!!! Also Robbie’s new song is No.8. One surprise is that McFly entered at no. 9.
Space Cadets started on Channel 4 last week. It sounded like a great idea but too be honest its been a bit dull. I watched the first couple episodes and caught a few bits here and there. The idea is that they have picked 11 ppl to ‘go to Russia to some space camp and then go into space’. The ppl they have chosen seem to be some of the least intelligent ppl in the UK. Out of all the contestants there are 3 actors. They have chosen 4 ppl to go ‘into space’. At the moment 3 contenstants and 1 actor are in ’space’ and the rest are in the space camp (called STAR). The ppl live in the space camp, as far as I know, have not been shown at all so they are just doing nothing!!
United played Wigan today in the premiership and won 4-0. Rio scored his first goal for United (about time!!), Rooney scored a couple and Ruud scored the penalty he won.
