Adam Peaty is sportsman of the year by a country mile

Even an anti -Irish comedian wouldn’t dare to come up with the joke that is the Djokovic standoff. How would you start to explain it? A big mickey competition between the Aussie tennis crowd and Immigration services is one. The rest of us wonder why their stories weren’t aligned before Djokovic fronted. Another angle is that some Aussies are fairly pissed at watching the Europeans walk off with their tennis cup every year. Well we have news for them because this is not cricket and if one European doesn’t win it another will as always.

Meanwhile on another tangent we have Radacanu winning bbc sport of the year. Considering the us open was not even televised in England this is some stretch and has more to do with all the money she won than any sporting magnificence. Good luck to her and all that but Adam Peaty is sportsman of the year by a country mile. Meanwhile again we have United losing on the swings and losing on the roundabouts. Why does Sir Alex still bother? Ronaldo and Cavani were like two fellas who met in the pub before the game such was their cohesion and the other chancer Fernandez just as bad. It looks like the prizes once again will be duked out among the Quatari sovereign wealth fund and the Russian kleptocrat.

I see Newcastle have now joined the moneyed circle from the same rats nest. Spare a thought for poor oul prince andy, up to his oxters in slime he keeps digging deeper. Maxwell, either through fear or hubris refused to cop a plea deal and we may neve find out how high the rot spread but we can all draw our own conclusions. ‘Jeffrey likes them a bit younger than me’ said trump. Indeed.