The week in sports

Work and laziness have conspired to keep me away while much has happened. After the promising start to the season Arsenal have lots to both Manchester clubs in the space of one week - playing better football than both teams but lacking the incisiveness and luck to score out their opponents.

The US Open has been exciting - Murray and Roddick the surprise early exits among the top seeds while the rest have managed to hold fort albeit a few scares.

Excitingly Sutil has P-2 in todays Monza GP behind Hamilton and ahead of Raikkonen - go Adrian show Giancarlo what he is missing !!

Ohh I almost ignored this, but England ignored Croatia in scoring a 5-1 victory at Wembley last Wednesday - which went some way in resurrecting "English" pride after the ignominy of failing to qualify for Euro when they suffered defeat at the hands of Croatia on the same pitch two years ago.