Colm O'Regan: Why do we like to piece things together out of incomplete information? It's called savouring behaviour

The viewing experience has never been richer, more immersive. We simple folk used to just watch penalties from the sideline. Now we are floating in the air above the penalty taker in a drone or being jolted around on a referee’s nipple and hearing him pant 'that’s a goal' into the Gopro

Colm O'Regan: 'I don’t have Sky Sports. We’ve enough fecking streamings at the moment and every day I swear I’m going to cut back and then every day, as they said in Brokeback Mountain: “I wish I knew how to quit you.' Picture: iStock

If there’s room on the Rory McIlroy Masters bandwagon for one more, I just want to talk about a very small bit of it: Watching Sport That’s Not On The Telly. Or at least Not On My Telly.

I don’t have Sky Sports. We’ve enough fecking streamings at the moment and every day I swear I’m going to cut back and then every day, like they said in Brokeback Mountain: “I wish I knew how to quit you.”