SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6

A CROWD of England Under-21 stars were ringside to watch Amir Khan’s calamitous minute in Manchester. After-fight entertainment was at a club where a beautiful young friend of mine danced with several of them. She’s not stupid, just shallow.

I’m happy to report they were not involved in the punch-up that, naturally, took place. But she was less than impressed by one player who repeatedly spat on to the disco floor. Where did he think he was? White Hart Lane?

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7

NO ONE of sound mind would wish to re-live England’s modest Andorra win. But we might have liked highlights on network telly. Fat chance.

It was Setanta or nothing. That’s an indictment of the FA who should have ensured a big audience for our team. It’s an embarrassing legacy for departing chief Brian Barwick who got the job because of his TV experience.

Blues boss Alex McLeish turned down some loans I put his way from the Premier League. I love the loan system, I proposed it to the Prem. Today Alex says he wants a quality midfielder. ‘You can have my son, he’s just scored from the halfway line,’ I reply from his Under-11’s match.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8

MORE work pushing for a new stadium. Some would like to replace the one old St Andrew’s stand but the directors prefer a new HQ a few hundred yards away.

The World Cup is a great chance to get it as the FA are insisting that cities, not individual clubs, host games if the 2018 bid is successful.

My dream is a 50,000-seater ground as the centrepiece of a Birmingham Commonwealth Games bid.

The city surrendered the chance to host the 2002 Games, which Manchester held. But there will be another chance. And look what happened to Man City.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

AN e-mail from my pal Freddie Shepherd. He’s doing well with his oil business and is ‘looking at two clubs’. Owning a club is like a drug. Ask Ken Bates.

Freddie had a few spats with fans but a chorus of ‘The Good Shepherd’ might be sung in Newcastle now.

No sign of a successor to Kevin Keegan. My husband played for Keegan at Fulham and tells me that owner Muhammad Al-Fayed walked into the dressing room with Michael Jackson and said: “Cover up your willies boys, you know what Michael’s like!”

My favourite Toon story is about Shola Ameobi. An interviewer asked his nickname. “Shami,” he replies. “What does Bobby Robson call you?” “Carl Cort”.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

MY friend Jamelia, the beautiful singer, is coming to this Saturday’s home match with Doncaster.

Her husband Darren Byfield plays for Donny and I like to think she raps her hit ‘Superstar’ if he scores.

She’s tougher than me and sits in the seats he gets. I tried it when Paul played for Sheffield United.

I went in WAGs kit, heels and fur coat, for a wives’ area seat. Imagine me pushing through a turnstile, clip-clopping to a tip-up seat. I never went again.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

MILLIONS missed England’s great win in Croatia last night and although Setanta eventually put it on free-to-view, who was to know?

The FA have long needed a good stirring up, perhaps chairman Lord Triesman is going to provide it.

Hat-trick hero Theo Walcott couldn’t have done better than choose Arsene Wenger and Arsenal when he left Southampton. It’s good for Arsenal, too, developing a young England star among a foreign legion.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

WE’RE very proud here of the great Jeff Hall, the Blues and England full-back, who died of polio at the age of 29, nearly 50 years ago. It was his death that prompted millions of people to seek the vaccine that had just become available. Tomorrow we unveil a clock on the main stand in his name, replacing the one that was lost in the stadium redevelopment.

Later, I get a text from a girl friend. ‘Can you keep a secret?’ ‘No. Don’t tell me anything’. This is not true but I really don’t want to know her secrets.

They almost always involve sex, usually with someone I know. She tells me anyway. Eek. It involves a Prem chairman with a roundy face, beer belly, who always seems in a bad mood and his bizarre sexual preferences. ‘Christ alive, I told you not to tell me’. Final piece of information, he is very rich. I’m not implying anything, just making an observation!