David Bowie Is Back!

For ten years fans of the Thin White Duke have been waiting patiently for some sign of activity for the great man, and today we got it. What a way to mark your 66th birthday!

Bowie in the video for ‘Where Are We Now?’

Bowie really is back, with a new album ‘The Next Day’ scheduled for release on March 11th. And even more exciting, perhaps, is the fact that we can listen to his new single right away!

Its called ‘Where Are We Now?’ and you can watch it on YouTube or download it from iTunes as of this morning. I’ve also included a link to watch it on YouTube at the bottom of this article.

Bowie’s new album, The Next Day

With Bowie’s troubles in the last decade with ill health followed by a complete withdrawal from public life many fans had grown to believe that he would never release another album so this is huge news.

My hope now is for the next step: a world tour with a stop in Glasgow!

 

2012 – The Year Spain Dominated World Football

This year’s Ballon D’Or saw Barcelona’s Leo Messi claim his 4th title as the world’s best player and all 11 players in the World 11 being Spanish-based players with 5 from Barca and 5 from Real Madrid.

Messi with his 4th Ballon D’Or

This has led to a huge deal of moaning from those in England who can’t deal with the fact that they no longer have the best league in the world. The truth is, La Liga is far superior to the EPL or any other league at this point in time.

As someone who watches both leagues every weekend its easy to see that La Liga now has the best players, and so I thought I’d outline my World 11 below, which evidently is really not that different from the official one.

Even as a Manchester United fan I don’t see Robin Van Persie as deserving a place in the team, with both Radamel Falcao and Zlatan Ibrahimovic being steps ahead of him.

As for Messi, there is absolutely no doubt he deserved to win the trophy, he’s been in a different class to everyone else in 2012 and may well be the greatest player of all time. I would have been delighted to see Iniesta, a player I love, get the trophy but any unbiased fan will tell you Messi deserved it.

Iniesta celebrating a goal for Barca

My World 11:

Buffon

Arbeloa – Pique – Ramos – Alba

Xavi – Alonso – Iniesta

Messi – Falcao – Ronaldo

 

As you can see, that’s still 10 La Liga!

Also, Sergio Busquets and Pepe are unlucky not to make the final team.