Brolly just latest to suffer with the sniffles

It has been a rough couple of weeks with the pollen. It was the hay fever, we now know, that drove John Inverdale to his ‘sexist lapse’ at last year’s Wimbledon.

No doubt, it was a long-term runny nose that ensured Richard Scudamore’s PA was able to enjoy sexist bantz as she dealt with Premier League business. There must have been a dangerous shortage of antihistamine across the US on Tuesday when the 18-year-old daughter of the Milwaukee Bucks owner appeared briefly on TV during the NBA draft and had eyes running and mouths drooling all over social networks.

A cursory glance at the Twitter account @everydaysexism will alert the World Health Organisation to an allergy epidemic.