March was for
me the best month of sport since the Olympics: Man U-Madrid, Barca-Milan, Man U-
Chelsea, both legs of Spurs-Inter, Wales-England. Spectacular matches & all
on terrestrial TV.
Barca
responded to two Classico defeats & losing the first leg of their round of 16
match to Milan in emphatic style. It’s hard to look beyond them or Madrid as
winners now, especially as Bayern only scraped past Arsenal. Perhaps Dortmund
could spring a surprise.
Wales lost
seven on the bounce in the autumn, & at half time in their first 6 Nations game were down 30-3 to Ireland. The
turnaround was completed in the title decider in Cardiff, as England and Owen Farrell were shown to be fallible, Wales in the end
winning by an emphatic scoreline.
Andy Murray
is up to world no. 2 after winning Miami. In this BBC interview (link below)
Lendl made a refreshing point about a more favourable draw made possible by a
higher seeding. Normally players give the standard line that they don’t look at
the draw, all matches are tough, you have to beat the best to win, etc. Lendl
instead was saying it would be preferable for the big four players to play each
other, hopefully in gruelling matches before facing Murray. A dream scenario
for the French Open, with Ferrer 4th seed & Rafa 5th;
would be Djokovic(1), Nadal(5) and Federer(3) drawn in the same half.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/scotland/21967941
Performance
of the Month
Wales.
Honourable
mentions:
Rafa Nadal, won
a record 22nd Masters title in Indian Wells
Tiger Woods,
back at world no. 1 after a three year hiatus
