It's the silly season all right

* Steven Gerrard's acquittal for affray is hard to believe given the six other accused weren't so lucky and he had confessed to throwing "two or three punches" and being "7/10" drunk according to the police's scale, where ten is paralytic. I'm a big Gerrard fan but not here. During the trial, Gerrard bamboozled the London media with a northern dialect word "mither" - meaning 'bother'.

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No Short Corners @ Jul 24, 2009 12:27 PM EDT | Blog Profile