Long Live Sir David!

It's been a funny old week in the world of David Beckham.

On Wednesday night he returned home to Old Trafford for the first time since his acrimonious exit in the summer of 2003 hoping to upset his former club. He walked onto the pitch to huge applause and chants of "Fergie, Fergie sign him up" echoed round the Theatre of Dreams as the prodigal son warmed up. However 90 minutes later his Milan side had been well and truly beaten 4-0 after a footballing master class from Wayne Rooney and Manchester United. Becks then left the pitch to a standing ovation as he donned a green and yellow scarf in support of the OT faithful.

Just four days later and the bad week got cataclysmically worse for Goldenballs. Playing for Milan in a league game against Chievo, Becks was stretchered off the pitch following an injury that he suffered unchallenged. The icon left the pitch an emotional wreck, knowing the severity of his injury. As i'm sure is common knowledge by now, Beckham suffered a ruptured achilles tendon and will therefore miss the World Cup this summer. The tournament would have made him the only England player to appear in four finals and would more than likely have been his last. The dream of seeing the most popular England captain of our generation lift the World Cup is now over.

Now most people will probably be thinking; "Ah well, not a big loss, he's not the player he was and wouldn't have been in the starting eleven anyway." But what a key member of the squad he would have been. You get the sense, watching an England game every time he comes off the bench, that it lifts the crowd and that can only have a positive effect on the players. His dead ball skills are still World Class and in the closing stages of a close game with weary defenders, his precision could make the difference. Not only that, he's bloody gorgeous. It will be a big loss to England this summer but hopefully we've still got the players to do the job.

Right, enough preaching about Sir David. Its been a busy sporting week, not only did Manchester United crush AC Milan, but the previous night Arsenal delivered a lesson in football to Porto to win their place in the Champions League Quarter FInals. As much as I can't stand the man, Niklas Bendtner gained a measure of revenge on the pundits who absued him following his Ade Akinbiyi impression against Burnley last weekend, by netting a game winning hat-trick. My hate for Bendtner is not unfounded by the way. He spent a season on loan in the Championship for my beloved Birmingham and was given ludicrous plaudits for his role in our promotion despite only scoring one in every four games. Not exactly the best return yet apparently he was a superstar!?

We then had another chapter in the demise of Liverpool football clubs as they succumbed to another defeat, this time at the hands of Lille. It just keeps getting worse for Rafa's men, but maybe their defeat of Pompey last night will reignite their push for fourth.......but hopefully not!

A standard premier league weekend saw no change at the top of the table, with United and Chelsea easing past Fulham and West Ham respectively.

Oh and also, before I move on from football, I need to address John Terry's armband celebration last week. What a pleb! Nice to see him keeping himself to himself after his recent shenanigans.

This weekend also marked the start of the Formula 1 season with a nice and dull hour and forty minutes with minimal overtaking. It was pretty much a conga line procession with this new rule on refuelling taking away any last shred of excitement left in the sport. It would be nice if the video on the BBC sport website "Bahrain Grand Prix in 90 Seconds" could replace the actual event.

Nice to see the Brits of Mclaren both getting in the points and the charismatic Lewis Hamilton getting back on the podium. Although I do wonder how he's managed to blag this Pussycat Doll because the man is about as interesting as an Ashley Cole affair. Money talks I guess!

Finally in golf we found out that there has been no date set for Tiger's return! Yes that's right, this was news. It actually came up as BREAKING NEWS on a sports news channel that I shall not name for sake of not bashing Sky Sports....ooops. I don't understand why the PGA Tour felt they had to release a statement to say no date had been set. Surely if this is the road they are going down then we can look forward to similar statements every single day until he decides he no longer loves sex and can start playing golf again. How must it feel for the rest of the players knowing that Tiger's penis is getting more coverage than the guy who win's the tournament...that'll make you feel special.