Sporting chance

Tomorrow on Good Morning: something about how some blokes will sacrifice time with their SOs to watch or play sport. I don’t know how that is possible, and many of my female friends know more about the All Blacks than I do, though probably for very different reasons.
   I find no appeal in watching sport. I will when it’s on, and I followed the cricket yesterday, but that’s about it. I have driven many bits of the Monte Carlo Rally route, but it wasn’t at the expense of a relationship.
   A lot of these sportsmen are not very sporting. Let Sam Tyler describe Gene Hunt: ‘An overweight, over the hill, tobacco-stained, borderline alcoholic homophobe with a superiority complex and an unhealthy obsession with male bonding.’
   I feel much the same about some of our so-called sporting “heroes”, except nowadays they indulge in stuff a lot stronger than tobacco. In some cases, drug pedlars and sportsmen make regular bedfellows.
   No doubt my fellow presenter Paul Sinclair will have a lot to say about this.