I can't be the only one who thinks this looks a little suspicious.

Last Thursday the UK suffered yet another horrifying terrorist attack at the hands of an Islamic extremist when a man who had recently converted to Islam detonated a device while attempting to prime it in a restaurant in the provincial back water of Exeter.

Since then we have learnt a number of things about the suspect;

• He is of similar age to me.

• He is of similar build to me.

• He has a mental health record similar to me.

• He suffers from a form of autism, the type of which I have known several sufferers. As the professionals know so much about how to diagnose autism and who to treat it's sufferers I see no need to dwell on the point.

• He travelled from his home in the naval town of Plymouth to Exeter in order to carry out the attack in the town where my brother lives.

The official version of events follows that the suspect, Nicky Reilly (good Irish name) had crossed MI5's radar while they were investigating a terrorist cell in Plymouth. MI5 then decided that a man with suicidal tendencies associating with Islamic extremists within a town that is the Royal Navy's second largest port and home to thousands of sailors and their families represented no terrorist threat whatsoever. They then decided not to keep a closer eye on him and this allowed him the freedom to travel from Plymouth to Exeter where he launched his attack it what was presumably an attempt to kill or injure a vast number of un-Islamic sheep or seagulls.

Now at the risk of sounding paranoid and delusional I would like to suggest an alternative version of events. In this scenario rather then failing to identify the risk that Mr Reilly posed when they first identified him MI5 actually took a very good look at Mr Reilly and filed him away for future use.

Later when the time came for him to be useful Mr Reilly was then nudged, possibly by using Internet chat rooms or local agents, into carrying out the attack in a location which would guarantee the story a place in the headlines without doing any real damage.

Also fresh from fantasy land comes the news that Avram Grant has been sacked as Chelsea manager. As far as I'm concerned this hasn't come soon enough because his appointment seemed to come as a response to the news at the end of the 2006/07 season that no matter how well they played the UK authorities would not allow Chelsea to win the premiership title in 2007/08.

The Chelsea leadership decided that this was because of the fact that Chelsea were perceived as being anti-Semitic so they tried to counter by appointing the most talented Israeli Jew they could find as manager.

As the British Establishment's desperate desire for Manchester Utd to be viewed as a winning team stems from more complicated and urgent needs then it's support for Israel this move failed and cost Chelsea the Champions League in the process. Hopefully now will be able to appoint a more talented manager however I suspect Manchester Utd will still come out of the next season painted as the winning team.