FINGERNAILS READY...; GLADIATORS READY...; ULRIKA... NOT READY

THE 2007-2008 Premiership soccer season will come to its exciting conclusion on Sunday and here's how to watch the key matches which will all kick off at 3pm.

Live Super Sunday (Sky Sports 1, 2pm) has Wigan Athletic v Manchester United, or you can press the channel's red button to see the 'interactive' match - Blues v Blackburn Rovers. They're on Sky 401 or Virgin 511.

Sky Sports 2 has Chelsea v Bolton Wanderers (Sky 402, Virgin 512).

And Setanta has the crumbs - Portsmouth v Fulham (Sky 429, Virgin 538).

With relegation from the promised land staring them in the face, Blues' fans, whether in the ground, at home or down the local boozer will barely be able to watch their match without devouring all of their fingernails.

The TV camera crews at St Andrew's would be well advised to spend half their time filming the crowd to see which fan has the filthiest habit.

As if all that excitement isn't enough, don't forget that Sky is relaunching Gladiators (Sky One, 6pm) with Ian Wright and Kirsty Gallacher replacing John Fashanu and Ulrika Jonsson.

The format's original presenters were always a cold pairing in my view. A bit like adding two ice cubes to a freezer and expecting it to warm up.

In retrospect, isn't it funny peculiar how Fash was always known as Fash The Bash and Ulrika will now always be known as The Bashed?

Talking of Ulrika, it's ten years ago today (May 10) since Dana International was being paraded before the world's media at the Council House in Birmingham on the morning after the night before when she'd won the 43rd Eurovision Song Contest at the NIA.

Programme co-host Ulrika was nowhere to be seen.

(Terry Wogan was also missing, too, but at least El Tel had spoken to the Mail in the run-up to the show in order to contribute to our bumper colour supplement).

Miss Johnson (there's no point using any other term when you've had soooo many chaps in your life) had declined. Something to do with it being cloudy on the day of our planned interview and not wanting to be photographed.

I didn't understand her reasoning at the time (relayed through a third-party producer), but maybe her life since goes someway to explaining everything.

Previously, I'd once interviewed her on the sofa at the old TV-am office in Birmingham when she was a weather girl.

Yes, she was gorgeously pretty in one sense. But, although it was summer, I nearly caught a chill.

Thank goodness for industrial-strength undies, eh!