Words from Daisy March 16, 2008

A football commentator friend of mine, whose family and in particular the children don’t share his enthusiasm for the game, has been charged by his young daughter to insert a few words of her choosing into his live Premiership-match commentary. So “Nincompoop, minted and bravo” were all to be used separately or he would face a dressing-down on return home.

Meanwhile the summariser, an ex-footballer, not quite so equipped with vocabluary, is having a few sideways looks at his commentator in the thick of the play and the prose.

Meanwhile still, daughter is readying her next arsenal of words.