The Best Sporting Weekend Of The Year?

The first weekend of the election campaign also happens to be one of the vintage sporting weekends of the season. Timing of door knocking has to be fairly carefully watched this weekend.

The US Masters at Augusta has been even more keenly anticipated than usual this year, with the might Tiger Woods making his long awaited comeback to golf following his much publicised personal problems. I have always said that Tiger should be judged by his golf alone and I have no doubt that he will let his golf do the talking this weekend. The Masters always creates sensational drama and excitement and I have little doubt that will also be the case this weekend. Tiger winning would be quite a story.

If that isn't enough, it is also the FA Cup Semi Finals this weekend. Sadly, there is no North Eastern representation (on the subject of which, congratulations to Newcastle for their promotion back to the Premiership) but some top notch sporting excitement is promised. Surely, Portsmouth making the final is this terrible year for them would be quite something...

If all that isn't enough, the Grand National takes place at Aintree this weekend. A tremendous spectacle and , although lacking the quality of the Gold Cup, certainly makes up for it in terms of excitement. Watch out for the number of horse racing analogies used by political reporters on Grand National day. Also, watch out for a politically themed winner doing what 'Party Politics' did in 1992!