What a brilliant first football match to be covering for my job - Reading FC came behind from two goals down to beat Middlesbrough 3-2 in their first ever Premiership clash. Cue much excitement all round.

In fact it's a bloomin' exciting day all round. Aston Villa have just smacked home the first ever goal at Arsenal's brand new Emirates Stadium as I watch the highlights on Match Of The Day, and the half hour or so I caught of Alan Green's Five Live phone-in was buzzing with hyper fans up and down the country. It's great to have football well and truly back now that all four divisions are off and running.

Just two people successfully predicted 3-2 to Reading in our online Fantasy Football comp (I was relatively close, at 2-1, but not close enough). Even the most ardent optimists would struggle to have justified it beforehand. What a great game.

With a bit of luck - oooh, Arsenal have equalised - I'll start again, with a bit of luck we should be getting the technology to allow me to produce online coverage from within the stadium. That'll mean I can watch the game at the same time as editing photos, audio and text for the website, which would be absolutely ideal - not to mention being relatively close to the commentary team.

Coming up in the next week I've got meetings with folk from Reading FC (Monday) and London Irish (Tuesday), then a couple of days to prepare for Reading Festival, which runs from Friday to Sunday. After that it's off to Canada for a week!

I'll also be writing up my meeting with the UFO expert last Thursday for the Berkshire website. It's had to take a seat on the back burner while the football season kicks off (and you know what, I'm quite proud of today's coverage).

Other stuff you might have missed from the past week: Bagot goats plus pics, trouble at Gatwick plus video, and ladies' rugby in Reading (including the havoc pregnancy wreaks on female rugby teams!).