Steven Wells on the kowtowing - and in the US, casual racism - that passes for much of sports journalism. Clearly he’s been reading the rubbish that his colleague Richard Williams foists onto The Guardian’s sports pages.

Everton fan John Sugden teaches a 100-strong sports journalism class at the University of Brighton. Which means there are at least 100 kids in Britain who want to be sports journalists. Which begs the question - why?

Do they really want to end up one of the dead-eyed “chaps” of the mainstream British press, relentlessly hunting down brain-cell slaughtering non-story after non-story in a joylessly monomaniacal pack?