âGAA Goldâ, âPremiership Goldâ, âRugby Goldâ, âOlympic Goldâ, âThe Golden Moments of Sportâ etc. â¦etc: We have been fed a feast of great sporting memories from every vault and every TV archives over the past year. This scribe is not complaining â far from it. For me, sport = sanity. We need a fix of sport and if there is little live stuff, well then, what is better than reliving the golden moments from games past?
For those of you who have no interest in sport, but still pass yourselves off as being sane anyway â well good luck to you! But this column is the wrong stop-over for you this week. For the rest of us, sport is the great escapism, the great retreat into a world where dreams can come true and where âthe glorious uncertainty of sportâ makes the heart thump and the nerves tingle.