Come back sport, all is forgiven

Larry Ryan on Saturday: Throwing snowballs at the week’s sport

Of all the big calls this page has made — big big calls really, if not big big big calls — I suppose last week’s must go down as the biggest.

Competition is stiff, of course. It was here you heard first how the black card was a divers’ charter. You were warned long before it was called VAR that VAR would empty stadiums. And a good while before Brexit, you were put on notice that the British might now be capable of any sort of madness without Des Lynam on the BBC to keep them on an even keel, to give it the old ‘steady, chaps’ every now and again. (A warning, admittedly, that might have been extended to include Des himself, given his eventual support for Farage and the lads).