BRIAN Nugent would have us believe that there happened to be a cat on the surface of Mars when Nasa's one-ton, car-sized Curiosity rover landed last week.

Sadly, the cat was in the rover's direct path. You can guess the rest: Curiosity killed the cat.

Against the groin

KEITH McClory, listening to BBC radio coverage of the Dinamo Moscow-Dundee United game, heard pundit Allan Preston say United's Sean Dillon wouldn't be playing as he had a groin strain. "However," Allan apparently added, "the Dinamo Moscow management did not get a sniff of it prior to the kick off." Now there's an upbeat mental image for a Monday morning.

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