From the Editors
ONE READER WROTE to us this week to complain, among other things, about the BBC’s decision to cover “as much football as often as possible”. She has our sympathy. It must sometimes feel to the sports-phobic that our traditional broadcasters have a one-track mind. But truth be told, there’s a lot less live sport on free-to-air TV these days than in the past, certainly when it comes to the men’s games, mainly because of the billions of pounds that the likes of Sky and BT (and now Amazon, too) are prepared to pay for the rights to broadcast the action. The BBC and ITV simply can’t compete. In the 1970s and 80s you could watch top sportsmen competing at cricket, tennis, rugby league and union, Formula One and, sometimes, football. Every…