Credit where credit’s due: I thought the beeb’s Arc coverage was bloody good! Clare Balding a great presenter and even her carrying Carson was an amusing double act. I liked the fact that they all got carried away with it.
Fast forward to this morning. 8.30 sports news slot on BBC Breakfast. Interminable football reports upfront, then motor racing and then a 5 second bit about Sea The Stars. Then the reporter said: ‘that horse is worth 100 million quid now’ and the female presenter, rather priggishly, said ‘oh, it’s mad isn’t it?’ And I thought: love, when are you going to observe that the salaries of the morons, thugs and rapists of premier league football teams are ‘mad’?