We could do with our very own negotiator

Between Mr Sepp ‘Steering The Ship’ Blatter (see elsewhere on this page), Mr Patrick ‘Golf Balls’ Neary (see the finance/comedy section) and Mr REDACTED REDACTED’REDACTED (see various legal eagles), it hasn’t been a great few days for prominent personages.

Not by a long chalk.

That’s why it is was pretty uplifting to hear a voice from the recent past on radio last week, someone who actually achieved fame for a constructive accomplishment, not to mention enjoying the freedom to revisit that period in his life some years later with no accompanying embarrassment.