Sporting relief - no comments

After watching approximately six hours of attritional football between Switzerland and Ukraine this evening, it was a pleasure to read Stephen Pollard's regular summer post detailing his contempt for tennis, and indeed, most sports and sports-participants, other than those that are brown, four-legged, and called upon to carry a rider around an off-rectangular course.

This didn't pass without comment, and Stephen felt obliged to elaborate. The last section is particularly good:

Another commenter however appears slightly over wrought by my having supposedly written about my dislike of New Year's Eve "three years consecutively in The Times". Quite what this has to do with a post about Wimbledon I don't know but, just for the record, it's utter nonsense. I have written about it there once, last December. (I also wrote about it in 2004 in the Mail and in 2003 in the Independent. Unless I am mistaken, they are different newspapers with different readers.)