Should darts be in the Olympics?

Put it down to guilty conscience.

JANUARY

The most notable match report of a quiet footballing week should have been the account of Alex Ferguson’s visit to the Harvard Business School.

The day before the day of days. Soon, that protracted qualification tournament held in London last summer will have produced an overall winner.

Like big John Daly, there is no dressing it up — we endured a grim sporting week.

Becks allows us believe in immortality.

The rising cult of the project manager last Monday night: Gary Neville applied polish to his punditry crown with a forensic, split-screen dissection of Jon Walters’s set-piece goal at Upton Park — an epic sequence of crafty nudges, darts, blocks and shoves that knocked over enough claret dominos to make way for a tidy finish from Gio Trapattoni’s battering ram du jour.

So, Zlatan… it seems safe enough, at this stage, to conclude that he has good feet for a big man.

The old saver ‘cultural differences’ was suggested; the first refuge of racists and the inappropriately friendly