For a committed non-sports fan I seem to have been watching, and getting excited by an awful lot of televised sport recently! In fact, for someone who, like me, comes from Hull, its been a very strange (and probably unique, almost certainly never to be repeated) week.

Things must have been exciting, because I’ve managed to watch two whole football matches this week – which is unheard of for me. I still think football is one of the most boring games ever – an opinion which, I think stems from school. I hated football there. Whenever we played (which was virtually every PE lesson – PE teachers back then had no imagination at all!) it seemed always to be either raining, or freezing cold, or both. I was always last to be chosen for a team and almost inevitably ended up on goal – where I stayed until I proved to be too much of a liability when I was usually made a ‘defender’. It was all so humiliating! I hardly ever got near the ball, and when I did, I had no idea what to do with it!

I remember when I got home my parents would sometimes ask me how many times I kicked the ball in PE – and if I said twice, that was cause for celebration!

So, quite a turn-around, for me to watch two whole matches – but it was Hull City playing and they’re on the verge of being promoted to the English Premiership. They beat Watford in the first leg of the semi-final 2:0 and then yesterday, beat them again in the second leg, 4:1 – which makes 6:1 on aggregate! Pretty convincing really.

And then, almost at the same time as Hull City were winning at football on Sunday, Hull KR were wiping the floor with Huddersfield in a Rugby League match. 42:22! Which is very impressive – and rather more exciting to watch than the football.

And today, of course, the first test between England and New Zealand – and I have a feeling that my sporting fortunes are going to turn fairly soon. Fortunately for England, a combination of rain and bad light wrote off a good part of the day so things aren’t too bad at the moment – New Zealand are 208 for 6 – but I’m quite sure humiliation is just around the corner. I know! Very negative – but I’m a realist!