Obligation to find hope in football

The Sky Sports News man’s interruption was a touch crude, a little insensitive, yet oddly comforting. A small contribution to hope.

Crystal Palace coach John Salako was telling of his defender Martin Kelly’s brush with death in Paris, eating in a restaurant just off Rue Alibert, which terror was invading.

“It shows football isn’t so important, when you lose loved ones…” Salako told us, as the Sky man cut across him.