From Shepherd's Bush to Flushing Meadow via Belgrade

I started yesterday evening in The Three Carrots - an Irish Bar in Belgrade - to watch the QPR v Newcastle game and ended up watching Djokovic win the US Open in the family's bar "Novaks".

Given the time difference, the late hour the match finished, the feverish celebrations of the locals and the vast quantities of alcohol consumed in a selfless act designed to improve Serian-British relations, today's post will be a brief one.

Suffice to say that it was ultimately one of those few occasions when football took a back seat to tennis, although I was the only person in The Three Carrots watching the bore draw play out from Loftus Road while the first set was played in Flushing Meadow.

Normal service will be resumed tomorrow.