In praise of ... armchair commentators | Editorial

Is it time to reverse the trend of getting former players to replace professional sports journalists as commentators? Many of the tributes to the cricket commentator Christopher Martin-Jenkins have pointed out that CMJ may be the last of his breed. Radio commentary was once the exclusive province of the professional sports journalist, men (they were almost invariably men) who may have played the game a bit in their youth, but whose careers and reputations were rooted in reporting, not fame on th...