it's hot or not time again as ian ladyman reveals what's been making him feel warm this week and what's been leaving him cold inside david villa has hit the ground running in new york and wayne rooney's celebration was a knockout but fulham are staring at successive relegations and questions remain about roy hodgson's england squad what's hot  david villa  the former spain forward is new york city fc’s captain and lit up yankee stadium in front of 45,000 last weekend, scoring one and making one meanwhile, frank lampard has played precisely two hours of premier league football since choosing manchester over new york in december david villa scored for new york city against new england revolution last weekend  wayne rooney  great goal against tottenham, great celebration too after news of his kitchen boxing match with phil bardsley appeared in the sun, though, there are lessons choose friends you can trust and never again be caught wearing white socks anywhere other than on a tennis court wayne rooney responded to a leaked video of him boxing with a knockout celebration against tottenham  rooney fell to the old trafford turf as if he had been knocked out, as appeared to be the case in the video  pat murphy  interviews by broadcast sports journalists can occasionally lack a little depth but bbc’s stalwart came off his long run when questioning national selector james whitaker on the kevin pietersen issue this week it was captivating work, born of courage and great experience geoff thomas  a good footballer but even better person, the former england player has kept cancer at bay for 12 years now and has raised thousands in the process if his decision to ride several tour stages with lance armstrong this summer does not please everyone i am sure he will cope geoff thomas (right) plans to cycle several stages of the tour de france this summer with lance armstrong  what's not  fulham  five years ago this week craven cottage witnessed a 4 1 destruction of juventus now fulham are threatened with relegation from the championship, having won once in thirteen games this is what happens when you choose the wrong managers fulham's 3 0 defeat to leeds in midweek left the cottagers mired in a relegation battle in the championship  five years ago, fulham beat juventus at craven cottage en route to the europa league final  roy hodgson  an england squad with almost as many left backs (three) as strikers (four) suggests hodgson is about to experiment with 7 2 1 against lithuania or doesn’t actually know where leighton baines plays it’s a dispiriting selection and tells us all we need to know about our prospects at euro 2016 alastair cook  english cricket’s sense of self pity has now spread to those who haven’t even been playing cook should realise that although the decision to appoint eoin morgan as world cup captain wasn’t right, it doesn’t mean that jettisoning him beforehand was necessarily wrong rahat ali  after his dropped catch eased australia’s passage to the last four of the world cup, the young pakistan fielder looked shell shocked but the worst is yet to come at some point in the coming weeks, young ali will have to go home pakistan's rahat ali drops a catch as pakistan were knocked out of the world cup by australia 
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david villa scored one and created one against new england revolution . geoff thomas will not be fazed by criticism surrounding lance armstrong . five years on from beating juventus, fulham slumped to another defeat . roy hodgson picked three left backs in his latest england squad 