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Mike's post about Wrestling made me smile, I was only just this morning trying to track down pics of Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, Hulk Hogan's one-time ally/enemy. Ah, the Golden Age of WWF, the ultimate commentary team of Jesse "The Body" Ventura and "Mean" Gene Okerlund (with ringside commentary from Gorilla Monsoon) - like The Heff says, it's a shame that they can’t find enough celebrities who are actually willing to go the whole hog and batter each other with steel chairs.

On a similar note, the people behind "Big Brother" are launching a new show in India called something like "Celebrity Bollywood Cricket Academy" where they take a bunch of Bollywood stars, chuck 'em in a cricket training camp and they have to play a game against a Cricket Stars XI (an ageing and semi-retired side of players, methinks). I reckon it could catch on, they're already doing "The Game" over here, and quite frankly Celebrity Rugby Academy could provide all the punch-ups and pugilistic entertainment that the public were so callously denied by the various Boxing councils who refused to sanction the celeb boxing. Did anyone see Sarries vs.Leicester over the weekend? Brilliant. The dirtiest off-the-ball game to be shown on TV since Wales vs. England in 1987 (Bill McLaren "All the trappings of a Bruno-Tyson fight..") or any England vs. France game from the 90's.

Martin Corry was lucky to get red-carded, if he'd been cited after the game they'd have had at least four incidents to talk to him about, the pick of the bunch being a sweet straight right hand to Hugh Vyvyan's jaw at the side of a maul. My own personal "take no shit" award goes to the Sarries sub flanker who landed a few on Martin Johnson after Johno tried to "assert himself". Payback of the day was dished out to Leicester 2nd row Louis Deacon; Sarries prop Kevin Yates was grabbing LD's jersey as he tried to sprint away from a line-out, so Louis administered a broken jaw courtesy of a glancing left hook. Sarries 2nd row Kris Chesney became an agent of righteous retribution by way of a well-timed - and well-aimed - bit of ruck clearing. Subsequent reports have stated that Louis is currently nursing a fractured nose, swelling, etc. I'm sure I saw Neil Back chin Chesney at some point after that, but you'd have to take a sledgehammer to Kris Chesney to make a dent. If Martin Johnson starts whingeing about foul play, you know it's veering towards the ethnic end of the cleansing scale. Great TV, a great advert for rugby too - Castagneide's searing break lit up the afternoon, and 16 men sorting things out amongst themselves without too many interuptions from the referee. I can't wait for Ice Hockey-style fight allowances, they should only stop them when someone hits the floor. Let them scrap it out properly before you send them to the sin bin to cool off for 10 mins.