Sven-Goran Eriksson at Notts County? Really?

Yes, in just three years, Sven has gone from England manager to Director of Football at a League Two club, via Manchester City and a disastrous spell in charge of Mexico albeit, Notts County are a club with a proud history as the world's oldest professional football club, fallen on hard times.

I'm loving the warmer temps here in NH, as the sun rises on this February Sunday! Have you heard of Jennifer Figge?  She just completed the amazing feat of swimming from the Cape Verde Islands to Trinidad ... at the age of 56.  (And I can't even get myself to exercise for 15 minutes these days!)  [.

The News of the World will surely soon reveal Qadbak, Sardar Hyat, Ali Al-Faraj and all the other names involved in the welter of recent takeover tales, as part of an elaborate sting to expose the inadequacies of football's "Fit and Proper Persons" tests. Sulaiman Al-Fahim, alas, you couldn't make up).

It was something of a disappointment that there wasn't a big empty space in this morning's edition of the Guardian's sports section. It would have been the most fitting response to Ken Bates' decision to ban the newspaper from Elland Road as a result of reports written by David Conn about the increasingly murky issue of the ownership of Leeds United.

This week Arsenal play yet another club whose ownership is unknown. It is the club of Martin Taylor. It is an evil entity owned by Grandtop International Holdings, who are owned by.... Well what a surprise. We don't know of course because they are all registered in the British Virgin Islands.