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Today had the potential to be a good day in British sport, and just like the weather it turn into a damp squib.

It started badly when I slipped and fell down a grass bank at the work's family fun day and covered half of myself in mud. I realise that the words work family and fun don't normally go together and I have no family but I needed to drop something off with an old colleague who happened to be there, so I went along. Fortunately no-one captured the moment on film so there were only a handful of witnesses who have subsequently been sufficiently bribed.

Anyway, the plan for the rest of the day was to go over to see some friends, watch the first England qualifying game of the world cup qualification campaign and then sit back and enjoy the Amir Khan fight.

Well the England performance was lacklustre at best, the fans were right to boo them off at half time, and despite two goals from the little shit named Joe Cole the overall performance against Andorra, 186th in the world rankings, was poor.

So after grabbing a pizza we headed back to my friends' house and paid our £15 to watch the boxing and we waited in anticipation. First up was Audley "A-Force" Harrison, and he lived up to expectations by being even worse than England. The only notable moment was when his shorts bunched up at the back and "fo" of his nickname were hidden and the word "Arce" was spelt out on his backside, summed it up really.

Another fight on the undercard was sat through which was pretty good and the underdog won, leaving us clear for the main fight to begin at around 11pm. That in itself was a god send having stayed up to 4am on occasions with our webmaster waiting for Prince Naseem Hamed fights were the entrance sequence lasted longer than the fight. Well tonight, I've sneezed for longer than the fight lasted. Khan has been knocked onto his backside before but has popped back up and thrashed his opponents, but this time he got hit so hard after 30 secs that his legs went (he looked like a bird that had been hit by a car twitching by the roadside), a few seconds later he was down. The ref should have called it off then, but he let it go on for just another 10 seconds before he was down and out. To say it was a shock would be an understatement but when they showed the shots on super slo-mo it showed just how hard he had been hit.

I do wonder if such a shot will be a career ender. It certainly was the case for Hamed. I just hope Khan learns from the fight and that England perform better against better opposition on Wednesday against Croatia.