Billo was a man who truly made himself at home on telly, and invited us all in.

Good job Paul Grimley wasn’t in Langton’s the other night. He’d have been in grave danger of choking on his fillet steak.

There will come a point where we no longer feel like being deferential to the ostentatious voices of sport. That’s probably a good thing, on balance.

One of the BBC’s most familiar voices for four decades, James Alexander Gordon, is bowing out from reading the classified football results on radio after having his larynx removed.

SO DID Mickey Harte and the gang of six or seven or eight cross the line this week? Until Hawk-Eye is finally installed and working right, I suppose we won’t know. We certainly don’t want to start a family feud by asking the umpires.