For the first time in weeks I had a bout of relegation insomnia on Saturday night.

Defeats against Leicester and Sheffield Wednesday, coupled with Stoke City recording back-to-back wins against Wimbledon and Coventry, would result in relegation on Easter Monday.

The Albion faithful would choke on their chocolate eggs.

Thankfully, in the cold light of day, my eternal optimism returned. I still think Albion will survive. I've said all along it will come down to the last day in Cleethorpes and after Saturday's setback, that looks evermore likely.

For the sake of my own sanity, Albion can't possibly get the wrong result at Grimsby. Imagine a five-and-a-half hour car journey, having been relegated, with my Southern Counties Radio colleague Hawesy. There's only so much a man can take.

An almighty row has broken out in German football because Bayern Munich have secretly been receiving more television money than any other club in the Bundeslegia.

A new deal is being negotiated and the German FA has said all clubs will now get the same amount and there will be no more secret transactions.

Bayern president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge reacted in a way which suggests he has spent too much time indulging in that favourite German pastime of lying in the sun too long.

He said if Bayern don't get the deal they want they will leave the domestic league and join Serie A in Italy.

Just how he thinks he can get away with joining a league in another country beats me.

His plan is surely dead in the water. I don't think the Italians would go for it even if UEFA agreed and if, by some miracle, that happened I'm sure FIFA would intervene.

If the German FA have anything about them they should call Bayern's bluff and let them see if they can make it outside the Bundeslegia.

It wasn't hard to read between the lines of the big boxing story this week. Frank Bruno wants to come out of retirement and have a big money fight with Audley Harrison this summer. Big Frank thinks he would knock out the Olympic champion inside three rounds.

Frank is the wrong side of 40, on the cusp of the C and D celebrity list, has just gone through an expensive divorce and is not considered credible enough for panto work. Basically, he is skint.

One paper likened Bruno's comeback to that of George Foreman's. He returned to boxing in the Eighties at the highest level after a ten-year absence. A comparison with George Formby would have been nearer the mark.

For all Harrison's limitations, the only way Bruno could knock him out would be by taking the stool into the ring and hitting him with it.

Bruno says he is still the daddy of British boxing. Perhaps he should prefixed that with "big" because, like Shirley Crabtree, he is nothing more than a figure of fun who should, if only for his own safety, be kept away from the ring.