Sport's words of the year for 2017

Columnists are flagging and the end-of-year audits are piling up; of moments, personalities, achievements, goals. But what of the commodity that keeps this whole operation going? How was 2017 for words, asks Larry Ryan.

Oxford Dictionaries anointed ‘Youthquake’ word of the year, a word I’ve yet to hear said, or written, away from the context of it being word of the year.

So it may not have been a golden year. And sport’s contributions to the language have, on the face of it, been modest.