This was not a weekend for pretty sports.

I wantched three matches and the highlights on what was a storm of a weekend. Wind howling, rain pelting, players sliping and sliding.

This is what sport is really about. This is what it looks like when we play the games ourselves. None of that slick and pretty passing to pinpoint perfection.

This was a day for hit and hope. For slips and spills.

Sports at their finest. When a lot of the game comes down to sheer will to win and get dirty for the ball.

It's just as entertaining as the pretty stuff if not more entertaining as logic goes out the window.

The first one that i saw on Friday was rugby with Munster V Edinburgh.

Rugby is a hard and dirty game at the best of times but wet pitches and slippy conditions make it even more so.

This was only the start of the stormy weekend so they missed the worst of things but it was still tough going throughout the game.

both sides would be used to wet and windy weather so there was no advantage to be had but it made for a real dogfight. These can often be more entertaining than pretty rugby as it comes down to who can not make th emistakes.

Saturday was even worse.

This time i was tuning into an Irish game of Mayo V Dublin. A big rivalry over here even if we are sitll in the early part of the year.

Dublin have been the best team in the country for the best part of a decade and kept their boot firmly on Mayo necks while the did it.
The tide has changes in the past twelve months due to a lot of retirements and a change of management which all teams are taking advantage of now.

From only losing a handful of game sin the past ten years they have now lost thier last four competitive games in a row which allowed Mayo to fight for a victory here for the first time since 2013. A long gap for a top three team.

The night was cold, wet and stomry. That was just the players attitude. The weather was much worse but led to a very entertaining game.

The best of the lot.

Man United V Leeds. A classic rivalry.

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This game is entertaining at all times these two old rivals meet but throw in a first league visit to Elland road in years while a storm flare doverhead and the setting was perfect.

The game was messy, fiesty, flukey, entertaining and terrible.

The ball was impossible to control and players were flyting in from all sides. United went 2-0 up in the first half and looked to be cruising before a crazy goal at the start of the second half followed by another seconds later even the sides up.

Then with challenges flying in from all sides Fred smashed in a rocked of a shot to turn the tide and One for Elanga to tidy up in Uniteds favour.

Those are the matches that I like to see. Maximum effort rather than pretty skills.