You know what I'm talking about.

That bit just before the players walk out on court where Gary Richardson sticks a microphone into a players face and asks them inane questions when the last thing in the world that the player wants to be faced with is inane questions.

It's dementing.

Firstly because the players won't talk. Why would they? Gearing up for the most important game in your entire career and you're asked how you're feeling. Er, DUH. Nervous, et cetera. Now I'm all up for real journalism and stuff, and getting in there when other people can't. But blood and stones spring to kind.

Secondly those interviews feel wrong. I don't want the BBC to be doing that for me. I want those players left the hell alone. They're too intrusive. No one is ever going to enlighten the viewer about how a professional tennis player actually feels before they walk out onto centre court because they're too worried about getting annihilated by Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal or a Williams sister. Ask any of those four and they won't talk because they're too worried about being annihilated by each other.

Thirdly, because of the above two reasons, they are universally rubbish. Answers like "I'll try my best" and "I'm pretty nervous" or "it's going to be tough" or "yes of course I'm looking forward to getting to the final" and "no, I actually don't think I have any chance of winning" and "yes, I really do think I can win Wimbledon one day" poor out of the poor athletes mouths as they fulfil a contractual obligation that ain't good for no one.

Still, the tournament as a whole was great and the final was phenomenal and it was fantastic to see Rafa Nadal win. Not only for the joy on the monster's face but it's good for the game isn't it? Yes it is. Unlike pre-match interviews. 

I don't care that he's British, I don't care that he's our great white hope, I don't care that he's the most likely member of the home countries to be the first player to win Wimbledon for hundreds of years, or whatever. I don't like Andy Murray.

He seems a snarling, scruffy, ungrateful grump of man. Personality wise, he is to Tim Henman what Gordon Brown is too Tony Blair. And I had no particular affiliation to Tim 'Robinsons adverts' Henman either.

But why? I'm not a particularly avid patriot, but in almost all other sports I can get behind a Brit somewhere along the line. I think in individual sports, nationality matters less. Where they come from is irrelevant and it's personality more than anything that shines through.

Would you want to spend time with Murray or Henman? Probably not. With John McEnroe or Boris Becker? Probably. I could be completely wrong of course. Andy Murray might be the Stephen Fry of the tennis world and constantly regale me of stories from 'the tour'.

For now though, it will be the charmingly unpredictable giant Marat Safin and the rugged street fighting of Rafael Nadal that I'll be sporting, whilst hoping that one day British tennis gets a decent player with a big enough personality to go with their skills.

Word has it that some European broadcasters are considering sueing Uefa after a balls up during the Germany Turkey game that saw millions of viewers have their TV signal affected by a storm.

Obviously, this in insane.

An enormous thunderstorm in Vienna caused the disturbance, and then a back up generator failed, which may or may not have been related. Fair enough, if back-up generators fail, someone is probably to blame.

But no one can be blamed when these things are caused by forces of nature. Rule number one: don't mess with nature. It's as if all the tsunamis, hurricanes and earthquakes this world has ever seen mean nothing.

Sueing broadcasters for loss of coverage during the storm is akin to sueing God, or the Great Arhcitect of the Universe, or any other non-specific deity for something they may or may not have done.

It's silly, that's what it is. And greedy.

Before Euro 2008 started, Germany were many people's, and bookmakers favourites. When they beat Poland in their opening game, this seemed, briefly, justified.

But in their last two games, the defeat to Croatia and the narrow defeat of Austria, they have looked shaky. Before this competition started a petition was drawn by Austrian football fans to try and pursuade the Austrian national side to withdraw from the competition because they were so bad.

It is a safe bet that were the Austrians not hosts, they wouldn't have made it to the tournament. But last night, Germany allowed waves and waves of Austrian attacks to come at them. Now, I grant you that it's not inconceivable that the Germans were well aware of the Austrians remarkable lack of firepower and allowed them to come on to them. But I find it unconvincing.

Apart from Michael Ballack, a player of supreme quality and without whom the Germans would have been embarrassed, the Germans looked narrow and they were subjected to cross after cross from the Austrian wingers.

In attack, Morislav Klose was subdued and Mario Gomes was almost reduced to tears by his lack of form.

Germany play Portugal next who have players of such a high standard, that if as many crosses as that are allowed in, they will be demolished. Portugal lack a striker, but they have the world's form player, and a host of goalscorers.

Germany have the tallest team in the tournament (6ft 4inch avarage), including the mighty Metzelder in defence. But if they don't sort out their lack of width on the football pitch, they will be skinned alive on the flanks, and Lehmann's resistance won't last long.

A predict a quarter final exit for the Germans, one that even Ballack won't be able to prevent.