Ho hum. This column has touched before on sport’s propensity to be sidetracked by events which have little or nothing to do with the events taking place inside the white lines, or whatever the equivalent parameters may be in the various codes that demand our attention, and here we are again.

A paramedic who went to the aid of victims of the 7/7 London bombings has apologised to the family of a young woman killed in the attack for not being more "useful".

British funnyman Steve Coogan's big screen project Alan Partridge: The Movie has been postponed indefinitely after complications with the script.