CHRIS HEWETT
GUEST COLUMNIST
Funny places, rugby Press boxes. It was comedy gold, listening to the antediluvian correspondent of a middle-market tabloid scream “speak louder, damn you” into a new-fangled mobile phone he happened to be holding upside down.
Alternatively, there was the quintessential moment of West End farce when a notoriously combustible scribe, fortified by a couple of prematch trebles, attempted to dictate the starting line-up of a Fiji side featuring Manu Tikomaimakogai and Seta Tawake Naivaluwaqa. “NO!” he roared at the hapless copytaker...
Already a subscriber to our website? Login