No dickheads policy helps ABs' bolter, and Blackadder didn't like rugby

PLUS: Flem lends a gold-plated hand and Ma'a on a horse!

It was one of those pregnant pauses in the sporting calendar, when the winter season wash-up has faded from view and the big stuff around the corner remains tantalisingly out of reach - just like the top of the hedges you promised to trim.

After talking to a fellow sportsophile this morning, it seems there are many of us out there annually disoriented by…