HOT OR NOT: Fair play to Aaron Ramsey for trying to speak Italian

It's Hot or Not time again as Sportsmail's Ian Ladyman reveals what's been making him feel warm and what's been leaving him cold this week.

The Welshman has not kicked a competitive ball for Juventus yet but has already made a good start by speaking Italian at his introductory press conference. 'Excuse my Italian, it's not very good,' said the former Arsenal midfielder. As it happens, it was more than good enough and fair play to him for trying. These things matter.

Can a guy who took so many strokes at The Open that he literally lost count really sit in the top half of this column? Yes, he can. The way Duval fronted up to the media after his horror show took real sporting courage. The 2001 Open champion looked shellshocked but said: 'Worse things happen to people every day'. He was right, of course.

The London club have broken their own transfer record three times in little more than a year with French striker Sebastien Haller arriving for £45m this week. Manchester United will tell you that spending lots of money doesn't guarantee you a thing but West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini cannot say he hasn't been backed since he arrived last summer.

Talking about the Portrush course during a stint on Sky Sports at the Open, Davies, who won 65 times on the American and European Tours, admitted that she had never played it. A prerequisite for this week of all weeks, one would have thought.

If the Spurs boss really was going to quit if his team won the Champions League, then maybe he should just have gone anyway, as it hints at a lack of long-term commitment to the club. If Pochettino didn't really mean it and is trying to play some kind of game with chairman Daniel Levy then it's a bad look. Not all football managers are as good at politics as they like to think.

England were the best team of a good World Cup and worthy winners of the tournament. But they didn't win the final. At best they drew it. At worst they actually lost it. Counting fours and sixes is no way to determine the outcome of a tied cricket game. Counting the number of wickets lost on the other hand…

Source: Daily Mail

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