Sports �n� All � What�s the angriest Premiership team … and other sporting nuggets

I�ll announce the line-up at the end of the piece, but before then there�s a whole week�s worth of sporting triumph and disaster to sieve my way through. Hopefully in doing so, like a man panning through soil I will find some gold in amongst the dirt. Anyway, that�s that done with. I won�t bring up whether darts is actually a sport this week, but I did notice that the two people playing the other day were Lewis and Hamilton (like Lewis Hamilton the racing driver, geddit ). That was as interesting as it got, before I turned over to watch golf in an effort to ratchet up the excitement.

Marcus Trescothick is an enigma. He has ruled himself out of England�s winter cricket tours and I can�t see him coming back for a while after that. He�s clearly struggling with the stress related illness that has been affecting him for well over a year now. It�s a shame for England as he has been consistently the best opening batsman for the country for years now and can dominate opening bowling attacks in all forms of the game. It�s good to see Michael Vaughan backing him and we can only hope that critics appreciate his situation before laying into him and calling him a quitter, as many people did when he originally pulled out of the squad. I say fair play to the guy. If he�s struggling with touring away from his family for weeks or months on end then he needs to take time off to get things straight, otherwise he won�t play his best cricket for England. Some people have lost patience with him, but I would say look at his international figures regardless of what his future plans are. Putting tests and one-dayers together he has played 199 games for England, scoring 10,160 runs with and average of about 40. Add to this 497 county matches (1st class & list A), scoring 22,014 runs at an average of 36. These are the figures of a quality player who perhaps deserves credit for the dedication he�s had up to this point, rather than being dismissed as lightweight.

Rafa Nadal will be better than Federer. Not my words necessarily but those of the great man himself. Federer sees himself as lucky that he won Wimbledon this year as he thinks Nadal will sweep all before him over coming years. I can see where he�s coming from. Nadal is already the best player on clay by some distance and, only 20, has time on his side to go on to become a great. You just have to look at the players he has defeated in his ATP Masters finals; Guillermo Coria twice, Agassi, Ivan Ljubicic, Novak Dokovic, Fernando Gonzalez and Federer himself three times. His power is the most astonishing part of his game, coupled with his obsessively tenacious refusal to give up. No player�s lead is safe while he is still on the court and games can turn on one inspired forehand passing shot out of nowhere.

Well now onto that team that I promised you at the beginning. It looks to combine the most hot-headed of temperaments with those guys who just never shut up on the pitch. This side would be a dangerous proposition on the pitch, if you didn�t just know they�d all fall out or start a massive ruck within five minutes of the match starting. I�ll lay it out below:

• GK: Jens Lehmann � Arsenal

• LB: Ben Thatcher � Charlton Athletic
• CB: Martin Keown � Ex-Arsenal
• CB: Stuart Pearce � Ex-Manchester City
• RB: Vinnie Jones � Ex-Wimbledon

• MF: Lee Bowyer � West Ham United
• MF: Roy Keane � Ex-Manchester United
• MF: Joey Barton � Newcastle
• MF: Robbie Savage � Blackburn Rovers

• STR: Craig Bellamy � West Ham
• STR: Paul Dickov � Manchester City

What do you think of that team Have I missed anyone out Is there a player out there who used to get under the opposition�s skin not just for their playing style I�ll leave it with you to decide.

And that�s the end of another Sports �n� All. Feel free to comment on the blog on the site and I�ll touch base in a week�s time.