There's a few things in football...

...that can't be helped!

For any readers of the other other side of the pond, I mean soccer, real football.

Watching FA Cup highlights on ITV tonight and I realised that I certainly can't look at Fellaini of Everton fame, without saying in my head "whoa that's mad hair!" It also seems as though it doesn't escape the minds of the commentators too, no matter what channel!

So this got me thinking about how many other things I just do automatically, even if I bore myself by doing it! Here are just a few things:

• Bite my nails at the sight of a bad injury
• "Boooooo" at the sight of Jermaine Defoe
• Utter silent expletives every time I lay eyes on Frank Lampard
• Stare at Tevez's scar, even though I know it's rude (I know he can't see me!)
• Say "Robbie Savage has such girly hair", every time
• See Freddie Ljumgberg in tight underpants every time I see him (also a suggestion of my boyfriend, worryingly!)
• Smile and say "awwww" when Beckham is being interviewed
• Being at a game and shouting "hand ball" or "penalty" even if you would need X-Ray vision to possibly know

That is to name but a few. I could probably sit here all night reminiscing about my season ticket days and think of many more.

The same also goes for every life though...staring at people's unfortunate features is one thing that we all do, and can't help. I chose to write about football just because I wanted an excuse to put in a picture of Fellaini and his hair...Whoa that's mad hair! (DAMN!)

May I also take this opportunity to admit my mistake, and apologise on behalf of Valon Behrami. He led me to believe that he would miss the season, and silly me did a big emotional blog about it, and now it seems he may actually be back before the end of this season. Hurrah!

Good job I didn't do the same for Collison, because it seems now as he may be back in two weeks.

Give me BBC football any day

For anyone who didn’t see the Everton V Liverpool FA Cup tie last night, you missed a cracker. No not the game (it was a bit rubbish to be honest!), but the monumental error that ITV made in showing an ad during play.

It wouldn’t really have mattered if this part of the game was as boring as the first 100 odd minutes, but unfortunately for the person in charge of the ads, it was when the only goal of the game came!

I did think it was strange at the time, and thought they must be contracted to show ads then or something, but when it came back and there had been an Everton goal, I could not believe my eyes...so much so that I went out to get chips and gravy while I pondered the matter!

I don’t think anyone really knew how serious this matter was until this morning. It seems now that there will be an FA investigation to see how seriously ITV take the football.

Too right...how can any channel that employs David Pleat to commentate, take anything seriously?

I think so far there have been over 1000 complaints from people who missed the goal, and as the problems seemed to last longer in the north west, most of those are probably from angry Evertonians.

It will be interesting to see what comes of this...