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On the 5 May, district councillors may deal a fatal blow to chief executive hopes of delivering the to his circuit.

Unless there's a dramatic intervention, planning committee will be asked to vote on a recommendation from officers to rescind the planning permission granted to Donington Ventures Leisure Ltd to re-develop the circuit in time for next season's race.

There are two outstanding issues, both were conditions of the original planning consent and have to be met: Gillett's team, which operates the circuit, has missed a deadline to provide a detailed transportation plan for race days, and it hasn't got the signature of the circuit's owner, , on the application.

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"It's all going very well" doesn't make a great headline, unless it's ironic, which in the case of the it isn't, so I'm going to have to find another one...

The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) co-ordination commission has been in town for the latest of their six-monthly visits, and in its own estimation is "deeply impressed," so how about Veni, Vidi, er... what's the Latin for, "went away"?

The IOC's inspectors don't like to be called inspectors. Partners is the preferred description. It implies shared responsibility, which of course in staging the Olympic Games, it has to be. It's too big a project to manage without a guiding hand.

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is the (young) man of the moment, the latest teenage prodigy from a long line Manchester United have nurtured, or simply acquired.

Talent knows no borders at Old Trafford. Lazio have long objected to the way United spirited Macheda away, but the broke none of Fifa's complex rules in doing so.

However, the regulations in 's statutes for the transfer of players under the age of 18 are currently under review, and there's a strong lobby from Uefa, led by Michel Platini with support from the Fifa president himself, to introduce changes that would mean an end to transfers of under-18s altogether.

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