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When I went past the rider was on the ground immediately in front of a white BMW - if a car was involved, it looked like that was it.

Also, this was on Cannon Street Rd just past the pedestrian crossing rather than on the junction itself.

I walked past this before the emergency services had arrived. There were a few people gathered tending to the rider. Quite a bit of blood. It didn't look good.

Hope this rider is okay.

Don't know about reporting - but the high max speed is not necessarily a car thing. Strava just goes a bit bonkers at times.

I gave up on the thing after it told me I did a max speed of 117.1 mph on route to Dunwich last year.

http://www.strava.com/activities/12157784

I went through London Bridge at about 8:30 this morning. It was properly shit.

Must get up earlier.

Hopefully the Bank closure will see some of the cars and construction trucks pissing off to other routes.

Apart from batting left handed in cricket.

Not sure a certain BC Lara would agree with this.

Somebody in a forum cap on a turquoise Brompton negotiating the mayhem at Eastcheap/Monument this morning. Would have said hello but it was a bit too hectic really.

Cracking read!

^ I think that the antipathy to international football seems to be a uniquely English thing.

Not sure why it works elsewhere as the Spanish, Brazilians, Italians, Germans, Clogs et al top level pros earn similar wages, often in the Premier League, and compete in the Champions League too.

We have a bunch of kids and misfits playing for England that are not good enough to compete at the sharp end and seem to be less than interested in making a proper fist of it. I think that is the apparent lack of interest and willing that I fall down with most.

FWIW - I dont think that quotas or giving Chelsea a reserve team in the Football League are the answer.

Souths, can anybody offer me some 31.8 riser bars?

I've got some old Cinelli Pepper risers you can have.

Chap on an interesting trick bike down Walworth Road this morning. Could well be on here. If you are, nice having a chat with you.

Makes me think of Johnny Cabs and Total Recall.

Do Not Want.

Bizarre also that it would be the Jonny-Come-Latelys. I guess they are the current champs.

In terms of heritage of a North v South match up - you would have to go with a Toulouse/Leicester/Munster v the likes of Canterbury/Blues/Blue Bulls/Waratahs

The banning orders shouldn't make much difference to most round here though

Oi, mid table mediocrity is ours!

I like to think we will share that mantle - along with Everton, Liverpool, West Brom and a couple of others.

I dunno - I don't think that WBA's season was ever going to offer more than mid-table obscurity and I really can't see that the loss of Anelka will change that much. I would be surprised if you were fighting out the 17/18th spots or worse this year.

Wow!

Did Clarke suggest he needed to track back and help out or something.

Meanwhile in Germany.....

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/man-in-underpants-partied-in-german-government-jet-for-angela-merkel-a-917494.html

How quickly I forgot about Monty :(

Point taken though.

Thanks!

I was going to bite - but decided not to either.

However.....

The track at The Oval is decidedly British and is not, as far as I can ever remember, conducive to spinners at both ends in the first session of the first innings of a test match. At least not for English spinners (have we ever had two decent spinners at the same time?)

It certainly didn't appear to be today either.

^^ No, not yet

^^^ Been strange use of the bowlers in the morning session. I thought that the use of the bowlers was strange. Spinners at both ends at 25 overs on the first innings was quite a call - the Oval is not the Subcontinent.

For the two overs that Kerrigan bowled pre-lunch - he chucked short length sitters that begged to be stuck into the stand and Watson took his cue accordingly. As good as Watson was, the idea to bowl a first cap spinner on a relatively new ball and first innings pitch was bad.

Hopefully, we will make some better calls this arvo

I particularly liked the bit where he says that he doesn't advocate walking but Broad remains a cheat for not walking.

And - Warner's out. Sounds like the England bowlers are getting a bit movement on the ball out there. Looking forward to sloping off to the pub for a couple of pre-lunch overs.

So, we have two debut caps for Woakes and Kerrigan with Bairstow dropped. I understand having a medium paced all-rounder but having a second spinner is an interesting call.

Boof's comments re Broad add a little extra spice to this one too.

Fun times ahead.

I should add that the Tottenham model - very wealthy backer (Lewis) and seemingly shrewd chairman (Levy) - at face value seems like something that should work, and work very well for the long term.

I think that it will be interesting to see how they react if this current significant investment doesn't go according to plan.

Hmm. So many others would say "sell your asset if he wants to move on and then invest in the team" so if that's what Spurs are doing - what's the problem?

And Spurs fans will take no guff from Chelsea, Liverpool or West Ham fans over financial strategies due to, Roman, Hicks/Gillette/FSG and Buscuit/Bongo Mag barons respectively.

Very much this - although I have no major issues with the "Bongo Mag Barons" financial management at West Ham at the moment.

However, Spurs are investing to the extent that they are seriously expecting to compete at the sharp end of the league and should they fall short (and god forbid, finish behind Arsenal again) then it will be really quite amusing.

On a more serious note, should they fail to make the Champions League spots will the burgeoning wage bill become an issue for them?

The Emirates is practically in a state of civil war.

At first glance I was in agreement with Cliveo - perhaps I still am.

However, content of that article suggests that the AST have an issue with the amount of power that Wenger has. Are they suggesting that Arsenal adopt a system more in tune with that of Tottenham - coach and DoF?

Genuinely interested as Spuds have been trying this for years (with reasonable player investment) and yet still consistently finish behind the Arse. Perhaps this year will be different