I’m not planning a revolution, or any revelations - but I have been thinking a bit about resolutions and the title was just begging to be written!

It’s around this time of year that people tend to eat and drink too much over the festive period and then announce some really drastic new regime for the new year which they will never stick to for any great period of time.

The obvious ones are to give up smoking, or cut down on eating or drinking but some people take it to extremes and vow to do all sorts of things.

From a spectator’s point of view is Alonso joining Renault a good thing in the grand scheme of things?

It’s not an easy question to answer.

What it guarantees (hopefully, barring unforseen circumstances) is that the three best drivers are all going to be at different teams for the next year at least.

Unlike this year where Alonso and Hamilton were both at McLaren, next season will see Hamilton remain at McLaren, Alonso at Renault and Kimi at Ferrari.  Throw a BMW driver or two into the mix and perhaps a Red Bull and it sounds like it could be a good year of racing!

Now that Fernando Alonso has decided to rejoin Renault, the attention turns to who is going to be in the second McLaren next year alongside Lewis Hamilton.

It’s the only really decent seat left so I hope that Heikki Kovalainen gets a proper crack at attaining it - surely he is too young to be on the F1 scrapheap already?  I thought that if Renault really wanted Piquet Jnr in a race seat next year then Heikki would at least have been their test driver but it’s not to be.

John Collins is the latest name to be linked to the vacant Scotland manager’s job.

Please don’t give it to him!

If any lessons have been learnt from the Alex McLeish saga it’s that young managers with things to prove won’t hang about managing a national side who only get together once every few months.

It’s the ideal job for a more mature person who is perhaps looking at semi-retirement, as they still get the thrill of coaching top players and battling their wits against other top managers but without the day to day grind of managing a side in the SPL or Premiership.

I’ve had an idea for a film, or maybe a TV drama - I think it’s gonna be a cracker.  This is the basic premise :

Imagine you are a guy, in a bit of a humdrum job doing the same old same old day in, day out - perhaps a civil servant working in an office, or a prison officer or something.

Away from work you want to lead a different life so you spend your cash a bit too liberally and end up in a little bit of debt.  You don’t want to curb your spending to pay off the debt, so the level of debt spirals out of control.  The depression this brings on, leads to more spending and so it goes on.