Ronaldo has said he wants to stay at United for “many years”. He currently has a contract which runs out till 2010 and is always being linked with Real Madrid. He said “It is a good sign to know I have so many clubs interested in me, such as Real Madrid,”"It means that I am valued.”"But I am very happy where I am and I hope to stay at Manchester United for many years. I have a good contract, in financial terms, but what really matters to me is to show my best form”.

When he was asked if he was the best player in the world at the moment he said “The United players are by my side – but of course I believe I am one of the best.” United want to Ronaldo to sign a new deal which will take him up to 2012. “I have a good contract, in financial terms, but what really matters to me is to show my best form.”

Excellent news!! He is getting better and better and seems to be maturing a lot as a player.

Avril Lavigne was at Radio 1 recently and sang a live set on the chart show. There are some photos online. You can also listen to her on the show.

Read more about the set on the Radio 1 Chart show blog. Annie Mac also interviewed her and you can download the video-podcast here.

Been having all sorts of car problems recently. Finally got the car sorted last week – as suspected the gear linkage was broken so they replaced it. It cost about £120 to get fixed. The actual part was only £40 but add on labour and then VAT. This is the first thing thats gone wrong with the actual car so could be worse – 4 and half years and about 30000 miles.

After picking up the car I heard I strange noise underneath and though maybe they forgot to bolt something up! Turned around and didnt see anything. Later on after work and driving home heard noise again and looked in mirror and saw something had dropped from car. It turned out to be a torch the mechanic had obviously left when fixing the car. I kept the torch off course – it was very useful for the weekend in the Lakes!

Spent the last 4 days celebrating Sarah’s birthday. On Thursday went for a Thai meal in Ikan. The food looked really nice and tasted delicious. This weekend a load of us went to the Lakes – Erkdale Green in West Lake District to be exact. We all headed up on Friday evening on the road trip up to the Lakes. Think it took about 2 and half hours to get up there. Trip up was good going up and down all the hills in the dark!! The cottage was very nice as you can see from the photos. We played a few games including Jenga and also the girls did a bit of cheerleading.

Saturday started off with everyone slowly getting up at different times I somehow found the energy to go for a morning run. Much better than running on the treadmill in the gym. Had to do some exercise over the weekend to keep up the training for the run in about 2 months. We all had a nice full english breakfast – hash browns, tomatoes, bacon, toast – everything!! Thanks to the cooks! We then went for a walk up various hills and across loads of fields. We must have walked quite a distance and some great views. Looking back at the hills they were higher than we realised! We ended up in a nice pub where we all had a well-deserved drink! Had another good meal in the evening with pasta and chicken wings – thanks again to the cooks! After food we played more games – Jenga (the drinking game version of it) which was very funny, a bit of Singstar (had to be done!! hehe) and a few of us played Pro Evo. Around midnight we also went out for a midnight walk in the nearby forest. I made use of all the torches I got including the one left under my car by the mechanic) but thats another story. Its actually a very good torch!

Sunday started off a lot later with breakfast not till past 12. Most people were obviously very tired from all the walking, Jenga and singstar I went another run in the morning and took a slightly different route. It ended up being a lot steeper than I thought!! By the time we finished tidying up, reversing cars out down the steep drive and losing the hour to daylight saving it was about 3 when we got going. On the way back home we went to Windermare for a quick visit. Afterwards we headed home via Preston. Some people went for some food and some others went straight home.

A tiring weekend and wish the weekend could have been longer. Had a great weekend and was most enjoyable spending it with friends. Happy Birthday for tomorrow Sarah!

Photos – Birthday meal
Photos – Lakes weekend

Its my birthday on Tuesday and last night I had a birthday / flat warming party. Its only a small apartment and about 25 people came so it was quite a tight squeeze but OK in the end. Just kept it cosy!! Everyone bought food and drinks and I also made some food and cooked abit of food. I was abit worried about not having enough food but it was fine. There are loads of crisps left and also drinks – I was trying to get rid of the wine that I already had but ended up with more!!

I also forgot to take some stuff out of the fridge such as the salad and also the gateau. D’oh!

We sang singstar for a fair few hours of the party. As usual good fun and some ‘interesting’ singing!! We sang till about 3am and no complaints from neighbours! Hehe. On one side of my apartment is the lift so thats OK, the other side there is an apartment but inbetween is some sort of emergency corrider or something so that would have created a sort of buffer!!

Thanks everyone for coming and thanks for the cards and gifts!

Photos and vids now online.

More car problems – ahhh!!! First alarm broke, then the damage to it, then the cloned number plate and now problem with gear linkages. I think its gear linkages anyway. Its getting difficult to put car into first gear and abit harder for 2nd gear.

Going to garage on Friday to hopefully sort it.

It was Comic Relief on Friday and this year it seemed better than others. It just seemed to have all sorts of funny stuff. The highlights of the night was Top Gear of the Pops – a special car version of Top of the Pops presented by the 3 presenters of Top Gear. The best thing though was when Catherine Tate visited Tony Blair. It was very very funny. A future in acting I think for Tony.

I have never really watched Catherine Tate show but after watching all the clips she did for Comic Relief I think I will be watching it from now on.

I have donated a little to Comic Relief but I think I will donate more. I tried to win tickets for the Chris Moyles Rallyoke thing – unfortunately I didnt win. I may buy the special Little Britain DVD and maybe also the special Peter Kay 500 miles song. That was very funny too and the music video had all sorts of z-list stars. (See vid below).

Last Tuesday I went to a special United v Europe XI match. It was to celebrate 50 years of Treaty of Rome and also United’s involvement in Europe. There were some great players on show and Fergie put out a decent team. There were some players who were supposed to play but were injured. Ronaldinho was injured – would have been great to see him play. The other Ronaldo wasnt available for some reason. Also Beckham was going to play but got injured – I was gutted. Would have been great to see him play again at Old Trafford. However he did come on the pitch at half time and made a speech and said stuff about United having best manager and the fans helped him a lot etc. He got a great reception from the fans. A United legend! I have linked to some YouTube vids of better quality, however in my vids I did manage to get a video when they missed penalty and when Ronaldo scored that amazing freekick.

The match finished 4-3. We were winning 4-1 by half time. At half time as expected there was several changes and a few of our better players went off including Rooney and Ronaldo.

One thing about the match that was great was all of Ronaldo’s trick. Every time he got the ball everyone cheered. However when he tried one of his trick he managed to fall over!! Sell him!!! Hehe

During the match in the 2nd half – a mexican wave started going around and loads of people made paper airplanes (for some reason) and tried to get them on the pitch. A few people did manage it.

When Liverpool players came on they got booed (also Diouf did) – all in good humour though. Gerrard was apparently seen joking with some fans – although they may have been Liverpool fans.

There were no real tackles – however Scholes went in with quite a strong tackle though – didnt show on replays in stadium! On the giant screens in the stadium they showed the BBC coverage but whenever something controversial happened they just showed some thing about Manchester United Foundation. In another incident in the match, Smith was challenged once which was not quite in keeping with a friendly match. He then went to make a great tackle (on a different player).

Apparently Zidane was going to play – that would have been brilliant. However he found out Matarazzi was in the squad (thats the bloke he headbutted in the World Cup). Matarazzi, in keeping for the dirty player he is tripped Ronaldo when he beat him and made him look like a fool.

Here is a homemade highlights clip of the match

Heres Becks speech

Photos and vids now online.

More car problems. Got a letter from council recently about a parking ticket not being paid. No idea will I got it as the place it named I had not been to before and happened on a Friday afternoon when I was in work.

Managed to see the photo evidence and its clearly not my car. I wont go into all the differences just incase this other person reads this – you never know! Although its a black Corsa there are about 7 differences between that car and mine.

I went to the police and they updated their ‘intelligence’ – whatever that means!! Also sent letter to DVLA and form back to council. Will have to see what happens…..

The England squad was announced the other day. There is no Joey Barton or Gareth Barry in the squad. Why did he pick him for the friendly (and give them either 10 mins or play them out of position)!!