THE WEEKENDS SPORT

This weekend the interminable English Premier League season finally comes to a conclusion.

Arsenal are already Champions, Chelsea are already certain to finish second, Man Utd third and Liverpool fourth.

Leeds United, Leicester City and Wolverhampton Wanderers are already relegated.

So what is the point of this weekends games? And why would anyone bother to watch them? (I ask myself the same question every weekend - I like playing the odd game but the obsession the locals have with supporting and watching teams they can't even pronounce baffles me completely)

Amazingly enough there is actually one thing left to be decided, and it's a biggy. Can Arsenal be the first team in "the modern era" to go through an entire season unbeaten? It has happened once before - Preston North End were unbeaten in 1889 in what was then a 12 team top division - but even I would have to grudgingly admit that it would be more of an achievement in the modern era than it was then, if for no other reason than there are now 20 teams, and they are all fully professional.

And who are they playing this weekend? Already-relegated Leicester City - my home-town team.

Now I'm not usually that fussed about the footy, and just glance occasionally at the results and table to confirm that Leicester are as bad as a I remember them being (they are) but this is Leicesters greatest chance of fame this season (apart from three of their players being held on sexual assault charges in Spain obviously) so I may actually have to watch some of this game. Time to dig out my Leicester shirt (bet there aren't many of those in Hong Kong!)

Meanwhile, over at Welford Road, in the interesting version of football, Leicester Tigers will be entertaining Harlequins in the Zurich Wildcard Semi Final which is basically the poor mans way of getting into the Heineken Cup. Having said that, we do badly need to win. The decline of Tigers at the start of this season was dramatic and though they staged a rally late on they realy need to be in European competition next year to generate the momentum they are used to.

All in all a big weekend for Leicester sport, even if not necessaritly for the reasons we would have wanted when the seasons started!

Leeeeeeiiiiiccccessssstttteeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!