European Games in Baku promises to be a step into the unknown
For the nine months or so prior to it, there is a tendency to fall back on the meat and veg diet of soccer, rugby and, to a lesser extent the GAA’s off-Broadway productions, but June brings with it an opportunity to challenge our taste buds and remind ourselves that there are treats aplenty to be enjoyed beyond our normal daily diet.
Wimbledon hoves into view and with it the rediscovery of people like Andy Murray, Boris Becker and John Inverdale – though the latter has finally paid the price for one too many verbal faux pas on the Beeb with a very public demotion from the nightly highlights show – and talk of volleys, serving speeds and weather forecasts that normally pass most of us by.
