Paul Weller

So Paul Weller is 50! When I first hooked onto The Jam he was 18 and praising Margaret Thatcher. You can't but admit he has become a quintessential rock god over the time. I like the way he has meandered through the rock history books plundering genres and styles as he goes. Funny to think he slagged off the hippies in 1977 and 20 years later did two or three albums inspired by Traffic. When I saw him at Hammersmith Apollo in July 1977 playing the Batman theme I never imagined he would be an elder statesman of pop. Long may he strum. (Still think I've Changed My Address is his best song ever though).

The Business End

Tomorrow - well, today now, the Premiership will be decided. If Manchester United slip up at Wigan and Chelsea win they will be champions. When I wrote about Chelsea at Xmas I said that it was time for the big players like Ballack to stand up and be counted.

Well, they did - they all did. With the exception of Shevy, all the Chelsea players have had some outstanding matches since Xmas and they have ground out result after result. Ballack has been brilliant and shown himself to be the leader we were told we were buying two years ago, Joe Cole was brilliant in Jan and Feb, Makele has stepped in and been brilliant, Carvalho has been player of the season and, even, Drogba has shown his true class in the big matches like Arsenal on Easter Sunday. In the last couple of weeks Terry and Ashley Cole have give performances to match their salaries.

The media are pretty down on Chelsea and talk of them as if they were George Graham's Arsenal. But they play as a team and fight harder than anyone gives them credit for.

I doubt they will get the Premiership but in Moscow on Wednesday week there will be more Chelsea players playing the final big match of their careers than those at Manchester United. I have no doubts where I think that Cup is going.

A Good Heart is Hard to Find

My eldest daughter is 14 tomorrow. She told her 11 year old sister that she wanted money as a present. When the 11 year old told me this I said to her, " You don't have any money - I always forget to give you pocket money. You have only got your birthday money." "I know", she said, " I will give her some of that - I can't decide whether to give her £10 or £15". Well, I reckon she only has £30 of birthday money, if that, so she was saying that she was going to give her sister half of all the money she had. I don't think you can really top that as an act of generosity, can you?