The Gardeners' World Blog

Until Theo Walcott helped inspire Arsenal to that awesome Champions League performance, and then Manchester United, Chelsea and Rangers did well too, it had been an unequivocally depressing week for British sport.

There were plenty of external factors we could blame: a plastic pitch and an errant Spanish referee in Moscow, a myopic German called Knut who missed the blatant upending of McFadden in Tblisi, the intervention of that all-important Australian armchair viewer in Paris, and an unholy alliance of a malfunctioning gearbox and overcooled petrol in Brazil.

Hi everyone, thanks for your comments again, many of them were about England's magnificent effort in reaching the Rugby World Cup final and also the subsequent debate over the future of coach Brian Ashton.

It seems odd to many people that the man who took his team to such success shouldn't be given a new contract straightaway.

For others, the rugby authorities are doing the right thing to have a process, a review and wait to decide the future of the coach - and players. On Inside Sport, we knew the minute England reached the final that, win or lose, we would want to try and get some of the boys into the studio to talk to Gabby.