Williams digs up golf's murky past

THE morning after Ron Atkinson racially abused Marcel Desailly in front of a mic he thought was closed, I knew the 30,000 words I’d already written for a book on Ron would never be used.

And Atkinson would never work meaningfully in football again.

Pity Steve Williams wasn't my subject. The news from Shanghai last weekend that the caddy had called Tiger Woods a “black arsehole” into a mic he knew was open could have been shrugged off in a day or two.