Blog ratings - the good news, and the bad

With this - our 1,000th blog posting - I can report an exclusive preview of tomorrow's new blog rating shows us that we are up again -  this time three more places, so we are into the top ten of Wikio's list of the most influential UK sport blogs!

Unfortunately this hasn't proved quite good enough to hang onto the "top rugby blog" title as Total Flanker has done even better as its shot up seven places to sixth. Oh well, it was good while it lasted. Still, together we are leaving several soccer sites behind - in fact we, Letchworth Girls, are ahead of the fan sites of every football club other than Arsenal*.

1	Arseblog	8	Formula One Blog	15	Cycling Info
2	SoccerLens	9	Letchworth Girls' Rugby	16	Women's Rugby Review
3	F1 Fanatic	10	West Ham Till I Die	17	Footie Blog
4	King Cricket	11	West Ham Fans	18	FCB News
5	Gunnerblog	12	The Corridor (a cricket blog)	19	4sportsake.com
6	Total Flanker	13	BlogF1	20	BBC Sport Editors' Blog
7	Line and Length	14	Suave's Republique Cricket

*Not that I generally give a hoot for the round-ball game**, but it is fascinating to see which football clubs do not feature even in the top 100 despite - allegedly - having the largest fan base. I wonder what it says about the relative literary abilities (or lack thereof) of each club's supporters?

**I had to actually referee some soccer games at a couple of schools last week - first time I'd been actively invoved in anything to do with the sport for about 35 years. Had to restrain myself blowing for offside when the ball was kicked forward... Reminded of the story of when Hayley and Carla played the game for the first time at Highfield when apparently they took several minutes to realise that you could pass the ball forward.