Sports Night Nov. 24, 2006

The greatest commentator in the land is Bill McLaren. However, he’s cheating really because rugby is all about surges and digging in. And his voice (from Hawick in the Borders) is perfect, passionate, heroic. In 80 minutes he allows all his emotion when normally he is an unemotional man. This Saturday is special for Bill as his grandson (Rory Lawson) gets to wear the Scottish jersey he never wore, against Australia at Murrayfield.

Tonight I am at the Cumbria Sports Awards – “sit me on any table, I am by myself” – and I will rub shoulders with these other sports (to football) which I normally have no time for.

Golf’s not a sport. is it?