So who will you support?

England -- against New Zealand - at least in this test Match (will let the kiwis have a few one-dayers if it means fireworks from the faux Gilchrist McCullum)

Nadal - to beat Federer tomorrow at the French Open -- and am deeply divided between wanting the smug Swiss to be trounced and wanting a close game -- but I know I want Rafa to win even though I hate his outfits. And that would be true -- in fact even truer - if he was playing the boorish grimacing Scot who fell to the man RN allowed to get three games off him.

Claire - to win the Apprentice - on the basis that she and Alan Sugar deserve each other...

But that is not the question which the BBC is wasting vast amounts of licence payers money trying to get us to answer. In a move which undoubtedly has Norman Tebbit and Bill Cash running to find a grave to turn in, the BBC is desperate to get us to adopt a European country to support at Euro 2008 and so justify their flooding our screens with it through a month which should be dedicated to tennis and cricket and barbecues.

In an age of freeview, interactive and digital, it seems madness to take any of the main four channels and dedicate them to sport - any sport. Even worse when two of them are flogging the same event. Speaking as a sports fan, sport should be on dedicated channels which can do them properly. Whether its Sky or Setanta or a new use for BBC3, sport should be banished form the main airwaves. Eurosport and Sky do tennis better than the BBC which messes up Wimbledon; Sky does cricket perfectly well and has meant you can watch cricket all year round. And in the days of hugely inflated costs for TV rights, it does not make sense for the taxpayer (the TV licence is a tax by any other name) to pay for them when there is a perfectly good alternative delivery vehicle available.

If next year's Ashes can be available only on Sky, then this year's UK free Euro 2008certainly should be.

By the way, the answer is Spain - which it would have been if England had qaulified.... or anyone Scotland was playing in the very unlikely event they ever qualified for a major tournament again. So vamos Torres, Frabregas, Casillas y amigos. But I won't be watching. Unless there is nothing else on.