As football, cricket and tennis fans have all discovered, there is a unique and seductive allure to night-time competition
One of the great things about being a fan of sport is the licence to rail against modernity. Complain about the intranet at work and no doubt, in time, you will be disciplined. Complain about sprinters pulling faces for the cameras on the start line and millions will be with you.
This antediluvian attitude ought to make the positive noises which greeted the day-night Test involving England and the West Indies all the more surprising. Rather than bemoan the creation of an entirely new meal break, coined ‘trunch’ by my colleague Andy Bull, the Edgbaston crowd were bang into it. Perhaps even a bit more than they were the cricket. The same went for people watching Arsenal’s victory over Leicester at the Emirates Stadium to launch another Premier League season on the Friday before last.
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