Staying silent gives none of us any credit

Enjoying a new book from Anna Kessel at the moment, Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives, which examines, broadly speaking, how women can reclaim sport. As a sample, take this for a chapter title — What does a woman’s voice in sport sound like? (And when can we stop pretending to be blokes?)

Granted, on a scale of one to 10 for snappiness I’ve seen pithier, but I’ll return to this once I speak to the author in the coming days.

I see you rolling your eyes from here, by the way. Having written more than once about vaguely related matters, women in sport or female coaches or rancid sexism, I see the reaction always coming along recognised lines.