Truth getting hazy in the dawn of 2017

Welcome to 2017. Already it’s better than last year simply because it’s not 2016, even if some of you are probably still a little fragile this morning.

I certainly hope none of your mouths feel now as though they were used during the night by a small creature as a latrine, and then as its mausoleum, to quote Kingsley Amis on hangovers.

Even if you are suffering, I feel I should warn you that the coming year will see the notion of a post-truth age absorb the sporting scene in much the same way it has absorbed the political world. The post-truth age - or falsehood, to be boringly technical about it - is the result of absorption in the ghastly solipsism of social media, the associated rise of the likes of Nigel Farage and Donald Trump, and the blasé dismissal of notions of truth and honesty in the general will to plunder.