Sport is an obvious subject for discussion or avoidance at the moment. Football World Cup, cricket and Wimbledon. You don’t have to be interested in sport of any kind to enjoy the drama, or at least get some entertainment out of finding the news and your viewing schedule totally disrupted. The teeming thousands who venture abroad to support their country’s football team may not have been able to get tickets for the match, but more fun is to be found on the streets of the host city.  Taking in the ambience and the experience, saying hello to Mum or your wife if you get to be interviewed by a television reporter. It all looks quite fun from the comfort of my sofa, but I would not like to be part of that seething mass of humanity, might not be able to find a nice quiet coffee shop.

Cricket looks very serene and I like the idea of stopping for tea, no need for hydration breaks. Wimbledon involves queueing early in the morning for lots of fans, part of the tradition.

Meanwhile the players themselves provide drama, suddenly dropping out of Wimbledon with stress fractures or maybe just stress, missing your country’s match against the favourites because you have a stomach upset. I can sympathise, having been struck with watering can shoulder, putting Zumba Gold or a swim in the sea in jeopardy.   

While some are out, others are making historic comebacks. It’s not just players who are in and out. Football managers seem to resign every week whether their team is winning or losing, thus heralding much discussion among the commentators in the TV studio, though not as much talk as the English cricket captain caused by resigning in the middle of batting.

Politics rears its ugly head in sport, though sport is supposed to bring  people together and forget this country doesn’t let women play sport, that country is executing people back home and your hosts are going to arrest and deport you at any moment.

But it’s all good fun and if you don’t want to venture far from home, but are fed up with sitting at home, get yourself down to the nearest club or pub with a big screen and meet up with like minded people.  Here you will be filmed for Breakfast Television giving your predictions, then filmed by the Evening News yelling and cheering and hugging everyone.

Our team won last night – at the last moment… I only saw the first kick and the end as I was watering the garden… but apparently I saw the best bits.

Have you enjoyed any big sporting moments lately or are you going into hibernation or aestivation for the next couple of months?