Way back in the landline days, when stories were measured in centimetres and woe betide any cub reporter who filed 30cms when 20 were asked for, a nicotine-stained subeditor leaned over my desk and asked me to explain the piece I had just filed.
“It’s a match report about a boring game that I had the misfortune to be assigned to.”
More than 25 years on, I…
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