Sports coverage goes from the sublime to the superfluous

Eventually you’re moved to action.

Taking a lead from one of my heroines, Comma Queen Mary Norris, I decided to do something about a couple of words that surface over and over again in sports coverage. Not seize the miscreants by the throat and start screaming, because that would be counter-productive, nor to roll my eyes (too obviously) when they inflicted more damage on the language. Too direct altogether.

I wasn’t railing against players, coaches and managers telling fibs or moaning or making ridiculous statements either, as if I were then we would be in a high- octane reciprocal hypocrisy situation, or a pot-kettle scenario.