Anyone else watch Tomkins play and wonder how they aren't professional footballers themselves? He is scarily poor every week.
He's just back from well, a half dozen injuries, and more importantly, in the past 3-4 games he's been pretty much outstanding.
As for the weather, theres really nothing more boring than the constant argument of other countries dealing with weather better. Its not WHAT weather it is, its if you're USED TO IT.
England by and large doesn't get massive snowfall, so when it happens we're not geared up for it. Somewhere like, Colorado in the states that gets crazy winters, will spend a lot of money on enough trucks to grit every road every morning all year if needs be and employ people for it.
Why would we do that here, pay a few thousand people 20-30k a year and thousands of gritting trucks and ploughs, for a week or bad snow, every 5 years, everyone would complain about the taxes required to cover them not working for 4 years 350 days between the bad snow falls.
For the Arsenal game, the covers were already off, the pitch was being prepared for the game and then you get several inches of snow in a couple hours, then you're screwed, it makes the pitch unplayable and theres no where in the world that wouldn't be true(obviously, pitches with retractable roofs are the exception (except that NFL stadium where the roof constantly collapses under the weight of snow )).