As a non sports nut, I find I can sometimes get right through a TV news report without ever knowing which sport is being discussed.
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England's under-18s secured a stunning victory at Lille as they clinched their second-round place in the Gaston Rocard, thanks to a final-whistle pass from third wingblock Anke Backshot that gave front inside leg Reg Garble a clear shot and left Vega Primark Hamburg gasping." (I may have made some of that up, which wouldn't be at all surprising as I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about.)
American football (or worse, basketball) is even more baffling. But cricket must surely be the most densely jargoned sport in the world? The difference being that most residents of this board have been absorbing its obscure lingo since they first drew breath, so they don't even notice its stupidity.
I was, however, amused to hear the News at Ten announcer describing the current transatlantic golf championships (ho hum, I forget what they're called....?
) as the world's most important sporting event. Personally, I'd put it quite a long way behind soccer and probably tennis. A bunch of middle-aged men in bad trousers and worse shirts and Trump-style peaked caps, waddling round a park and all trying to get tiny white balls into small holes, from which they will then remove them again. Who'd a thought that the TV audiences would run into hundreds of millions? Not me, for a kick-off.
Harrumph.
BJ