It's not often I'm appalled by things I see on TV, but I could barely believe my eyes when I saw these clips from a women’s football (soccer) game where Elizabeth Lambert was clearly having the worst case of PMS, ever.

This demon woman puts ‘bad boys’ like Vinnie Jones and Denis Wise to shame, as she goes on a punching, hair pulling, eye gouging and dirty tackling spree – it’s like Natural Born Killers on a football pitch. What I find even more stupefying is that the ref didn’t show a red card at any stage (to my knowledge anyway). I'm actually speechless, and you have to watch this for your yourself!

This has to be the craziest English Premier League season in years – out of nowhere, Liverpool have taken back fourth spot (for how long remains to be seen), and should Chelsea beat the Gunners today, followed by a Liverpool win at the Emirates in mid-week, then this season, by all accounts, is back on for Liverpool. And the title is still very much up for grabs.

And how different things could have been if Ferguson hadn’t sold his soul to the devil all those year ago to become football’s luckiest MF manager; and what would Fergie have done had he not signed Own Goal on a free transfer upon Ronaldo’s departure in the summer. Own Goal is now Sir Alex’s second top scorer, and has one more goal than Berbatov – sheer managerial brilliance.

Chelsea and Arsenal have been the two ‘best’ teams this year in terms of their approach to playing the game, and really deserve to be two vying for the title – not Ferguson’s arrogant bunch. Man City appear to have returned back to their rubbish with a defeat at Hull, and Spurs appear to be missing the cutting edge in the games that matter at the moment, and it’s costing them dearly.

Just a few months ago I was thinking how rotten life was, but if Rafa could just get this team fired up now, get Torres back and starting playing Aquilani instead of Lucas, there is hope yet for a serious run at second or third place, and securing a Champions League place next season.

Prior to Sunday’s close loss to the Lakers, critics have been saying the Celtics are too old to be considered legitimate title contenders this season.  KG has a bad knee, Pierce and Allen are too old to be relied on to carry the scoring load, the bench is too thin, and Sheed is too…. well, Sheed is too Sheed.

These are some of the criticisms being tossed around regarding the Celtics. This team was put together a few years ago for the sole purpose of winning Championships in the short-term. They achieved that in their first season, despite doubts about their bench and whether Rondo was a starting point guard in this league.

We all know now how silly that is because Rondo was named as an All-Star reserve late last week.  They could have won another ring last season if they had Kevin Garnett for the play-offs. However, he was out with a leg injury and, as a result, many feel that his injuries might be the difference between them contending and not contending. While he is the most important piece, there are a few factors which could see the Celtics remain title contenders despite having KG less than 100% healthy.

“What were the 39 Steps?” the man in the audience shouts to Mr Memory in the Hitchcock film, and Mr Memory has of course to answer.

Last summer, the powers that be who run the Barclays Premier League started talking about “the 39th Game,” an additional, end of season series of matches between Premier League teams, held not in England, but in cities of the world where soccer audiences (and TV revenues) still have some potential.

It would have been a nice idea for the city that got the Arsenal vs Man Utd game from last Sunday. (I wonder where that would have gone? Tokyo, Dubai City, New York?)

But any one that had the misfortune to host the Sunderland vs Stoke game from last night would probably have been scanning beach volleyball franchises or thinking about the potential of professional Scrabble well before the half-time whistle.