JUST a few weeks now to the start of the World Expo 2010, mascot pictured below, in Shanghai.

Liverpool is, of course, represented at the huge event and Liverpool Vision, the Northwest Development Agency and Liverpool City Council have been busy bigging up the city’s presence.

However, there seems to be a little less excitement on the official Liverpool/Shanghai website.

Click on the site’s blog page and you will discover that the last entry – entitled “210 days and counting” – was posted on October 5 last year.

Come on chaps, wakey wakey.

LIVERPOOL meet Manchester City this weekend while Everton take on Manchester United, but it seems the real football excitement is taking place in Warrington.

Warrington Town FC, in conjunction with The Director’s Club (is there only one director or do we need to call the apostrophe police?) is holding a business networking event to launch its new academy.

Guest of honour will be Ian St John junior (presumably the old man himself will be watching the Reds at Eastlands?) along with a number of unnamed “football legends”.

The VIP invitation contains a number of spelling and grammatical errors (including the key word “acadamy” twice).

Those attending, we are assured, will be able to watch the “spectacular” home game against Prescot Cables FC.

Who needs the Champions League?

STAR Trek managed to get the automatic doors thing right back in the 1960s but it seems Tesco has not.

Punters entering and leaving the retail giant’s outlet in Old Hall Street, Liverpool, have to pause for what feels like an eternity waiting for the doors to open. Get your screwdriver out, Sir Terry.