The month opened around the usual pub topics - laboratories, urine levels, deadly levels of alcohol. Arsenal won the League with a flukey four-goal win against Everton. Tony Adams celebrated with a reflective weekend in a Trappist monastery. In Glasgow, thousands of people cancelled their plans to emigrate after Celtic won the League title after nine years. Further celebrations in Scotland after Brian Kerr's under-16 soccer team took the European title. News broke that Irish sports people were allowed win sports events, so Darren Clarke beat the rest to take the Oxfordshire. Ken Doherty glided towards another world snooker final, stumbling in the end against John Higgins, a less miserable looking version of Stephen Hendry.