Larry Ryan: You can bet on streaming sport getting faster

Time travel is a constant factor when watching live sport these days.

STREAMING SPORT TO GET FASTER: Time delays on streaming services can mean finding out about a goal or incident before you even see it happen via Whatsapp, Twitter or someone watching it live on tv in another room. Pic: Zac Goodwin/PA Wire.

The small girl was undecided. We were watching the same match, in the same house, in different dimensions. Me on the telly upstairs, still toiling deep into the night at the coalface of journalism. Her on the iPad downstairs, marooned by the modern miracle of streaming at least 30 seconds behind the live action, vulnerable to any gratuitously audible displays of jubilation from above.

“No shouting if they score,” she decided, bizarrely forgetting what a calm and undemonstrative spectator her father is.