When you meet someone famous who means a lot to you - someone like Bobby Charlton, for instance - you have to watch your step.

Relaxation techniques are now hammered into elite athletes throughout world sport. It seems oxymoronic. "Relax! Relax I say!" But of course it works.

I would regard Ronnie O'Sullivan as a genius, even if he himself has just ruled out that possibility.

A unique piece of football memorabilia has gone under the hammer with George Best’s "little black book" being sold at auction for £1,500 ($2,000/€1,650).

It is clickbait. But I am going to bite. Because I can't not. "The 19 Boringest athletes of all time".

Shock sporting news of the week for me was the decision of the European football body, UEFA, to switch from a Shakespearean to a Petrarchan sonnet form.

Vijay Amritraj had died twice before I interviewed him at the Wimbledon qualifying tournament in Roehampton. We had a fascinating chat.

So I see the latest tweet from BBC 5 Live Sport on West Ham’s home game against Manchester City after Yaya Toure has put the visitors 4-0 up from a penalty. “There is a mass exodus of #WHUFC fans,” reports the commentator, Conor McNamara.

The passing of Yogi Berra, the celebrated New York Yankees Hall of Fame baseball catcher who died on Tuesday (September 22) aged 90, has prompted - in respectful and affectionate memory - widespread coverage of his celebrated non-sequiturs and verbal gaffes.

The list of Yogi’s boo-boos - he was said to have been the inspiration for the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Yogi Bear, indeed he even prepared a defamation lawsuit against the company, who insisted it was mere coincidence, before seeing the funny side and withdrawing it - is long. And of course one cannot neglect the opportunity to share again some of the choicer offerings.