Does this qualify, BBC?

I see the BBC are heralding the arrival of their 'Sports Review of 2005' in a week or so, with the award of 'Sports Personality of the year' going to, say, Andrew Flintoff. Has that let the cat out of the bag, I wonder? So here am I, with a nice picture on the right, about to take a tongue - in - cheek look at what might just sneak through into the BBC review of the sporting year, and which sporty events we might see coming up in 2006 and beyond, especially here in England we have an Olympics to look forward to in 2012 ( London over Paris, a result even sweeter! ) and - who knows - maybe even hosting the football world cup finals in 2018! Those dates way seem such a long way off now, but the day will arrive and yes, we will be saying "Hasn't time flown"! And yes, you know you will be saying that too.

So let us allude to the picture in the right and see if El Presidente ( Formerly known as the Prime Minister Tony Blair, all seeing eye of good and evil for the electorate in the UK ) will induct a new award for the BBC peeps, namely the 'Still a sport but with a new name' award, for the example is a man with a pack of hounds who now is taking up 'Hound exercising', which I think is worthy of an award... 2006 could see the advent of 'Longest hound run' which - hey! - might even make a government have a rethink on policies!

The future is young sporting people, especially in the world of tennis, be it Scotland's Andy Murray or Russia's Maria Sharapova, more power to your elbow, young people! Oh but will Timmy Henman win anything in 2006... I'll let you decide that one.

That's the over ( Ashes England 2 - Aussies 1 Hah! ).