Recently, squash has been put on the back burner while badminton comes to the fore. I used to play a lot when I was a kid, every week in fact, and loved it and I've found that years later I still really enjoy it. Last night was the first time I'd played doubles since I was about 12 and what a game it was! Fast, furious, light hearted - everything you want in the game. I suspect I shouldn't have stopped playing when I was young, although the session we went to clashed with hockey training so it fell by the wayside.

Big night tonight, Aberdeen play Lokomotive Moscow in the UEFA cup. Hopefully at least a draw, but we really need a win. Aberdeen's team are put together on a shoestring and Moscow have spent millions of pounds on their team - stranger things have happened...

One interesting thing about the game though - Aberdeen took over 1500 fans to Athens to play Panathinaikos. They took a similar number to the Ukraine when we played Dnipro, and it's looking like 3000 fans to Madrid when we play Athletico. Lokomotiv have asked for 6 tickets for the game in Aberdeen tonight. That means the Loko bench will have more support than fans in the stadium! And with a sell out on the cards, that's 20,000 Aberdeen fans supporting a team playing some of the best football they've played in years.

Come on you reds!!!!