Channel hopping goes into extra-time

It was with a very real sense of journalistic integrity then, reader, that I too undertook my task, shackled to a very sick head

THE sun never set on the British Empire they said. The same can now be said of TV’s sporting world. A particularly dedicated coach potato can view a bottom-of-the-table clash in the Brazilian league, and then take in an inter-provincial camogie game before lazily flicking to horse racing in the north of England.

But is it now possible to watch – for 24 straight hours – live sport on the television? I tuned in and turned on to find out on Saturday.