Aston Villa, Delon Armitage, that win against Manchester United and super Joe Calzaghe!

Martin O'Neill's men should have taken the three points, and indeed I wouldn't have been surprised if they had scored four, but it was just one of those days, although it was kind of cool to be sitting about 20 yards from MON as he jumped up and down and screamed his head off at his underperforming players. So a great day out despite the result and the weather, and bring on my next Villa game, although next time I reckon I might get my mum to come along, not for the cakes and coffee mind, its just she might be more effective up front than James Milner.

I couldn't write a sport blog without mentioning my Mighty Gooners win over Man Utd at the weekend as well, what a great game of football, although to be fair both defences looked about as dependable as a 1980's Alfa Romeo, but going forward they were incredible.

A lot of credit should go to Wenger, with people questioning his style of management left right and centre, and saying that maybe he had run his course.........what a joke, here is a man who has built a team from scratch, got them playing beautiful football, and created a future legacy at Arsenal.

Anyone who was calling for him to be sacked, is about as clued up about sport as Dame Edna Everage, maybe they should sit down and watch some of the football we played under George Graham? I mean you don't exactly hear chants of "Boring, Boring Arsenal" any more do you! Anyway, a great win, Nasri looked like an identikit Wenger player (Pacey, skilful, and very adaptable), and the table looks a lot healthier now we are only 6 points behind the leaders.

Another big event was Martin Johnson's first game in charge proper of the England rugby team at Twickers against a very talented Pacific Islanders side. The result was never really in doubt, and it was great to see Delon Armitage make a claim for the troubled number 15 shirt, and deservedly winning Man of the Match, with some incisive running, good defence and being very solid under the high ball (normally things you would take as a given for a full back, but lets be honest the last natural full back we had was Matt Perry........who still holds the records for the most caps at 15...even thought most people don't remember him!).

In fact I thought our back three of Sackey, Armitage, and Monye looked very dangerous, and while Cipriani didn't dominate the game like he can, I can see a very useful partnership forming between himself, Danny Care and Riki Flutey in the 9-10-12 channels.

The forwards gave their all, and I think our pack has amazing potential, but they will need to up their ferocity against bigger teams, and I reckon there are two main problems with this England team, that Johnson will need to sort if he doesn't want us to get stuffed by the Aussies and kiwis in the coming weeks.

Firstly, the contact area, this is a massive difference between Northern and Southern hemisphere teams, and its one that we need to sort out ASAP if we want to compete. To put it simply, when England defend they do it passively, allowing the opposition to run onto there defensive line before making the tackle normally conceding a few yards when the hit is made.

Why??? If you watched the Kiwis against Scotland on Saturday you would have seen how it should be done, that is with the defence taking the battle to the opposition, and using the tackle as an offensive weapon. Instead of waiting for the oppo to come onto you and take the tackle over your shoulder, you should be looking to hit them so hard that you are driving them back in the tackle, and hopefully forcing them to turn over.

This is crucial for a number of reasons, it allows your pack to get on the front foot and not always be playing backwards, the chance of a turnover is greatly increased as you can turn the player you are tackling, it can stop any momentum the oppo is building, and more importantly, people don't like to get hit, it gets in their heads and stops them playing freely if, when you tackle them, they are having to count their ribs and teeth to make sure they aren't missing any. In other words boys, front up, be men, and stop this soft, rubbish, defensive tackling!

Secondly is the static-ness of the backs, I know the days are gone where slick passing and good running lines were enough to get you over the gain line, but more and more England seem to get the ball out wide to the backs, only for them to be standing still, and running sideways!

If you see the Aussies and Kiwis in action, they are such a deadlier threat with the back line because of the pace and commitment with which they play. This though has become an England mindset, not helped by the otherwise excellent Danny Care, who repeatedly picked the ball up from a ruck and ran 5 paces to the side before offloading, starting the whole back line moving laterally, with no one looking to straighten it up.

There is no easy fix, as we need to change the offensive mindset of our players and get them to play more "heads up" responding to the game situation, but if I was Johnson I would be working hard with the backs about running two lines of attack (giving the runner with the ball many options), and making sure, no matter what phase it is, that the runners are coming from deep, with pace, and more importantly running straight to punch holes in the defence.

Okay, rugby technical rant over (Its so nice being able to criticise players who have more talent in their little finger than I have in my whole family tree, while sitting at home on my laptop and not playing in front of 80,000 at Twickenham!), and time for the biggest story of the weekend.

After last weeks amazing effort by Lewis Hamilton, I didn't think I could be more proud of being British as I was then, but Sunday morning, at about 5am, I was almost crying with pride..........and the bloke was Welsh!

Joe Calzaghe has always gotten a lot of stick about not fighting the big names and not travelling outside of Wales enough, but on Sunday morning he showed all of his detractiors just what an amazing boxer he is.

Calzaghe critics really annoy me, and while they are partly right, its not Calzaghe's fault that other promoters didn't want their boxers to fight him, and its not his fault that because of that he hasn't been able to draw the big purses and venues he deserves.

It shows that although boxing has improved in many ways, until the promoters are removed from the sport and one central governing body set up to oversee all belts, weights and fights, then travesties like this will still be allowed to occur.

Anyway, onto the fight itself, and although Roy Jones Jr. may have been 3 years past his best, there is no doubt he is still one of the best boxers out there, displayed by his clinical knockdown of Joe in the first round.

But what a comeback, honestly, I thought someone had replaced Calzaghe with the Tasmanian Devil, the amount of leather he was throwing, and even someone as good as Jones could not stand up to that abuse.

When Joe cut his left eye, you knew Jones was in trouble, and although he was still landing some good shots, you could see that one of the best pound for pound fighters the sport has produced, was genuinely shocked!

How could this boy from the valleys, take so much punishment, and keep coming, and more importantly keep throwing so many punches, that were doing so much damage, proven by Jones saying after the fight that "Joe's pitter-pats were a lot harder than I thought!".

The result was never in doubt after the final bell, and Calzaghe did us proud, by a show of not only great skill, but guts and determination as well.

Too many British boxers fail when the crunch comes, but that can never be levelled at Calzaghe, who is now undefeated in 18 years and has defended his titles successfully 21 times (wow) including two now in the US, with this last fight being a vintage performance that cements his place as one of the best boxers to ever grace the ring.

He is a true British hero, and one that could happily walk away from the fight game now with his reputation in tact and head held high, but I get the impression the big man has one more fight left in him.....and I wouldn't be surprised if it was a Super Fight at the Millennium Stadium next year.

Either way, Joe has cemented his place in history now and shows what British sport is all about, skill, strength, and sheer bloody mindedness, and I salute him!

On the music front this week, an album worth buying is the Stereophonics greatest hits, A Decade in the Sun. The Stereophonics seem to have been around for ever, and I have had the pleasure of meeting them a few times (Kelly really is that short!), and obviously I have the dubious honour of spending my week at work with Stuart Cable (former drummer) from the band as well, but I had forgotten just how good some of their tunes are, until I heard Caroline and Cable's (they do the show after mine from 10am-1pm on a Sunday) documentary on the Welsh Wonders, and found myself driving around Brum for an hour just so I didn't have to stop listening to the show!

You can check out the one hour documentary here http://www.kerrangradio.co.uk/Article.asp?id=951050&spid= then head out and buy the CD and reminiscence!

I am also starting my new show this week at Kerrang from 3-5am Mon - Friday, a show which highlights some of the best new tunes and some huge classics, (and allows me to talk a bit more about music and not just sport!) meaning I am the only person here at Kerrang to be on air 7 days at week, bring that on!

Right you lot, have a good 'un, there should be another video Blog (if you haven't checked out the others - do so now on this site, if nothing else to wonder at my Tash!) in the next week, so you can hear me talk about sport as well as write!!