I read in the Sun today that Obi is being pursued by Arsene Wenger as a replacement for “Hairy Henry”. What a joke! He’s never going to be as good as Henry was, not a million years! Wenger should keep the cash from Henry, go abroad again and uncover a jewel from some far flung corner of the French commonwealth.

Surely Wenger’s scouts have got their eye on the next Henry somewhere? Even if they don’t, Wenger can probably find a player for far less than the £11million or so that was being touted as Obi’s asking price. Nugent for instance, he’d be far less money and he’s English! Then again, Wenger’s not really a big fan of English players, just ask Francis Jeffers and Jermaine Pennant to name a few, though I think he must’ve had a soft spot for Ashley Cole to have played him for such a long time before cashing in on him by way of a switch to the dark side, sorry, I meant Chelsea.

We were - our bills were costing us over £100 a month! And they were set to rise by a further £40!

I came across a company called Utility Warehouse, they have a discount club that allows you to save money on your utility bills, such as gas, electric, phone, internet and even mobile phones. At first I was a bit suspicious, but once I got talking to the salesman about the company, I realised that actually they weren’t some “here today, gone tomorrow” flash in the pan. They were here to stay. The company is so big and successul, its even listed on the London Stock exchange.

I went through the bills I was paying, compared them to the rates that the Utility Warehouse would charge me on a like for like basis, and quickly worked out for myself that I could save about £30 a month by switching. I had a chat with the missus about it, she seemed keen to save £30 a month and so I agreed with the salesman to switch.

It’s all gone through now with no hickups, we get all our bills on one simple bill each month and we’re saving some money. I don’t see any of the savings mind you, it just means we get to eat out once a month for free, thanks to the savings we’re making with Utility Warehouse. To find out more, visit Piggy Bank Savings

I read on the ManUtd.com website today that he has expressed an interest in joining Man Utd. I suppose with Henry moving to Barcelona, he might struggle to get a game, unless Barca sell Eto’o.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to sell Eto’o than Gudjohnsen? Eto’o would fetch a similar sort of money as Thiery Henry, therefore funding the transfer of him from Arsenal. He’s also a similar player to Henry, so why would they sell Gudjohnsen who is nothing like Henry.

As a Man Utd fan, I would prefer for us to sign someone like Eto’o than Gudjohnsen, purely so that he could cover for Saha when he’s not playing. I suspect if Fergie did sign someone like Eto’o, he’d have to sell Saha to make the books balance, goes round in circles doesn’t it?

Owen Hargreaves is reportedly flying into Manchester this week to sign his contract and press some flesh. He’s apparently fit and ready to go. Great I say. I remember August last year, I was camping in Croyde with the missus, reading the newspaper and reading the headline “Got him”. It was referring to the story that Owen Hargreaves had stayed over in Manchester to sign a contract with United. I was well chuffed reading that, I thought he’d be brilliant. I’d been following the story all summer, since his displays in the World Cup. Shame it was a load of rubbish that wasn’t true, but we got him in the end, lets hope he puts in some great performances for United and helps us to win the Champions League again, now we’ve got our trophy back from Chelski!

Did anyone watch that program last night, they had this lady who inspects people’s poo come and visit three brides in the run up to their weddings, in and effort to try and help them lose some weight so they could walk down the aisle without being conscientious of how fat they were. What an insight! These 3 ladies were eating themselves into an early grave, quite how they managed to find grooms I don’t know!

One was eating takeaway food for dinner every evening, kebabs, curries, fish and chips, pizza’s - you name it, anything that had no nutritional value!

The scottish lady was stuffing digestive biscuits down her neck - not too bad really, though one shouldn’t have too many - except she was spreading butter all over them!

The Welsh lady wasn’t eating too badly by all accounts, but she was drinking like a fish! 3 bottles of wine a night every weekend or something like that. I’m no saint but even I draw the line at 2 bottles of wine!

These 3 ladies were clinically obese and had to lose 15 stone between them to get back to a healthy weight - they’d have to lose the equivalent of me, between 3, to get to a healthy weight. An average of 5 stone overweight each!

As an independent mortgage adviser, it got me thinking about life insurance, something I arrange a lot of funnily enough. It got me thinking about a new angle to market my business - people that have recently lost a lot of weight. Chances are, if they were obese when they took out their life insurance, they would have been rated. A rating is applied when an applicant strays from fitting into the healthy box, for example from previous medical history, smoking or being overweight. In some cases this can be up to 100% extra on the premium, so anyone who has recently lost a lot of weight, could benefit from reviewing their life insurance policies.

….on Tuesday 26th June 2007.

Not the best time of year to start a football blog I know, what with it being Wimbledon and all the major football stories revolving around Peter Crouch getting fidly with his missus on the holiday and Wazza and co watching the boxing in Las Vegas.

What I’m hoping is that by the time the new football season starts in August, is that I’ll have a nice little website with lots of readers all ready to read about my silly rantings and ravings about football. It’ll be mainly Premiership stuff, and within that there will be a lot of Man Utd talk, though I will try and be fair.

As well as Premiership football, they’ll be commentary about the Champions League, and the run up to Euro 2008. I might even try and write about Bristol City, seeming as I live about half a mile from Ashton Gate and they have just been promoted to the Championship.

Ahhh, before you say it, I’m not one of these Man Utd fans that doesn’t have a clue where Manchester is or anything. I have roots in Manchester. My mother is from Manchester, and her father, my grandfather was a lifelong Man Utd fan, used to have a season ticket in the Stretford End. My dad on the other hand, wouldn’t have a clue about football, he’s more into trains, and steam trains at that. Shame really, as he’s from Wigan and he’d be able to get a cheap season ticket to see them, would be a welcome boost to their attendance levels no doubt.

I hope you enjoy reading my website, and feel free to post comments, the ruder the better, just don’t slag off guinea pigs!

The current champions are AC Milan, winning 2-1 to Liverpool in Athens, May 2007. I watched the 2nd half of the match, and even though I’m a Man Utd fan, I still felt gutted that Liverpool lost. I remember watching that amazing match 2 years previously in Istanbul. I was round a friends house, who happens to be a big Liverpool supporter, and feeling gutted at half time when they were 3-0 down.

2nd half came round and by this point I’d already polished off a few pints, which meant I had to take a leak. Bang! Goal number 1 goes in. It was incredible! I didn’t get chance to have a pee, as I heard everyone go nuts about the goal. Once all the back slapping had died down, I went for my pee, only for another goal to go in! I couldn’t believe it. If I remember rightly, I was having a cigarette when the 3rd goal went in! I think I missed every single goal that night, until the penalty shootout.

So for 2008, the Champions League heads to Russia. Wouldn’t Roman Abramovich just love winning it in Moscow? I wonder what the odds are that Chelsea win it next season…

There has been so much talk about Alan Smith since he recovered from his ankle/leg break. He came back into the Man Utd team and struggled, funny that considering he’d spent 2 months or so not walking, let alone running! It takes a while to recover from a broken bone, even for superstars. But to expect them to be back to their best within 6 months or so of breaking the bone was a bit optimistic in my opinion.

He’s played some good football in the 2nd half of the season just finished. I was there for that epic Roma game, stood in the Stretford and loved every minute of it. He played well that game, amongst others. That was the sort of form he can produce, so why do they want to sell him?

I guess it comes down to money. Sell Smith, realise an asset that’s worth about £7 million so that the money men can balance their books, they need to after all, they’ve already spent close to £50 million on Nani, Anderson and Hargreaves.

But what happens if (read when) Saha gets injured again? We all saw last season that Saha was brilliant for the first half of the season, but then didn’t really manage to shake off his injuries for the 2nd half of the season. Can we really expect Solskjaer to get any younger and provide cover?

No. Man Utd need another striker, of similar quality to Saha. One that will work well with Rooney. So why sell Smith just to balance the books? If I was Ferguson, I’d keep him, get your money’s worth (or wuth in a Glaswegian accent).

So Thiery Henry, the man that pledged his future to Arsenal has gone and left….

I’m sure he’ll be very happy at Barcelona, maybe in a few years he’ll join Beckham at LA Galaxy after failing to win anything for a few years!