So it begins

Welcome to my new weekly blog here on The Sunday Mercury website.

I'll be taking an irreverent look at the world of sport each week, combining it with some incoherent ramblings about nonsense, and sprinkling on top a smattering of local sporting action.

Firstly I should say hi, my name is Luke, and I have the best job in the world.

I am paid on a Saturday afternoon to play rock music and talk about sport on the mighty Kerrang Radio!

The show is called Offside, and it's on between 2pm and 6pm, not that I am plugging it at all here in a bid to keep the boss happy. No, not at all.

The rest of the time I am either playing rugby, cricket, hitting the gym, going to gigs, hanging around at Kerrang trying to be cool, growing my moustache, or coming up with madcap schemes to take over the world!

I first came into contact with sport, when a javelin went through my frontal lobe at the age of 4, and somehow miraculously it did not only not kill me, but somehow managed to stimulate the part of the brain that controls competitive levels and sport addiction.

Ever since, apart from having to walk round with a javelin sticking out of my head (well until the great javelin removal of 1986), I have found myself completely addicted to sport and, more important, the competitiveness involved in it!

I can't tell you how much pleasure sport has brought me down the years, whether playing, watching or imagining it in my head, and I am looking forward to keeping you posted on all the big things that rock my world!

On a playing level, I have been lucky enough to play a pretty high standard of rugby, cricket, and - believe it or not - rowing (It's a long story, but I got into it at University).

I am currently playing cricket at Harborne CC, and I love my new club having moved to Birmingham in January. It's a top standard, and a great crack, so expect to hear about what we get up to at the club, especially if I do well!

I also play rugby up here for Selly Oak RFC, and previously have been fortunate to play for Oxford, Portsmouth, Old Wimbledonians and Sutton & Epsom.

I love my rugger and cricket but, as previously mentioned, I am keen on anything that has the slightest element of competitiveness in it.

I have even been known the terrorise the crown green bowls clubs of the West Midlands to get my sport fix. Okay, maybe not, but you get the idea.

Apart from sport my world revolves around music, and all the goodness that it can bring, so expect me to harp on about new albums and gigs I've been to, as well as getting you pictures of me and my motorbike with some cool bands.

So that's me, and this is my blog, I will update it every week, and check the Mercury each Sunday for my Offside column as well.

I'm truly looking forward to sharing my passion for sport with you.

Well, that and talking you through ball by ball my innings each week for Harborne.

Don't worry I'm joking (or am I?).