Executive vandals who abolished the classified football results on BBC Radio 5 Live's flagship Sports Report couldn't call the tune on a jukebox.
What are they going to scrap next – the shipping forecast? Tell fishermen to look overboard to find out if any big waves are coming Auntie, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing.
Recital of the football scores at 5pm on a Saturday afternoon is not just a sacred ritual informing the masses who won or lost. The soothing, mellifluous tones of James Alexander Gordon and Charlotte Green provided an oasis of calm after 90 minutes in the emotional torture chamber.
