It's great when you're straight, yeah?

All the wringing of hands & gnashing of teeth and over the Lance Armstrong 'expose' seems trivial compared to the latest news from Australian Sport, where teams in all of the four major codes have been implicated in the systematic abuse of illegal performance enhancing drugs. Not individual players but whole teams were regularly being shipped off site for the injection of mysterious 'supplements' by medical staff who weren't part of the regular staff and weren't on the books. Clean urine was being hidden in the team facilities to get around drug testing. Add to this accusations of match fixing, links with organised crime and the use of drugs not tested or cleared for human application and the whole Lance thing looks like a storm in a teacup.

If this allegations are proved to be true then it will be interesting to see what action the authorities take. If it was pro-cycling then the riders would be banned and the teams kicked off the Tour circuit for the next 3 or 4 years. Doing the same thing would lead to almost no mainstream televised sport being broadcast over the next four years - well apart from soccer, and no-one really watches that anyway To quote the great Shaun Ryder - 'Take off your Reebok's man, and go play fucking tennis' .

Which brings me on to my Friday tune and the great Black Grape, a band which only gets better with age...