first reflections on arsenal's 3-0 win tonight: good win but sparta prague were poor. As Tony Adams said 'they came here for nuffink an they got it'. Rosicky scored from a great Walcott cross in 7 minutes and that pretty much killed the tie - at 3-0 on aggregate. Second half sparta tried for a bit but after Fab and Ade came on (for Rosicky and RVP) arsenal picked up the tempo and eduardo started to look more dangerous. He crossed for Cesc to score before netting himself in the last minute from Denilson's cross. Very satisfying win, we never really looked in trouble.

So now we just have to wait for the draw for the group stage tomorrow.. be good to avoid barca and madrid, milan and psv. Think we should do better tha last year but not sure we have enough depth to win it.

bugger.. just heard the refuse van and realised that I've forgotten to put out the recycling. Its paper this week so its not the end of the world I'll just jump up and down on the box to squeeze more in! More concerned about my laptop and the internet connection. I noticed last week that during fantasy prem it just quits altogether when I try to change line-ups and this morning it did it on facebook as well. It also takes ages to load up and sometimes won't load one item (right now it has loaded 100 of 101 items for blog.co.uk). This computer is about three years old and I might try and buy a second hand desk top Mac nearer Christmas but its been an expensive year (again) so I'd rather not have to. Part of the problem is that I am still so ignorant about computers (despite being the department's IT rep!) that I'm really not sure what to do about it all.

Today is a writing day - and I think that is what I shall use wednesdays for this term. My teaching rota is going to be Tuesdays (Heritage), Thursdays (Crime) and Fridays (Jack and Criminology) so I'll fit my office hours around teaching and leave Monday & Wednesday free for research. Monday's I find it very difficult to be creative, I tend to do admin tasks mostly so that really leaves Wednesday for creativity. Well, Odin would approve - the day for gathering and constructing knowledge but not dangling upside down from the world tree to do it.