Sport on TV: It's the tail that wags the dog as Morgan returns to his vomit

After Graham Taylor's sad tale of England managers being pressured by the press, the treatment of their other halves came under scrutiny in a week in which Rio Ferdinand welcomed the demise of the WAG "circus" around the England team. The interview with Nancy Dell'Olio, Sven Goran Eriksson's ex-girlfriend, on 'The Dark Side of Fame with Piers Morgan' (BBC1, Monday) may not qualify as sport on TV, but Sven did do his best to turn adultery into some kind of new endurance contest for the over-50s.

It was Nancy who had her endurance tested to the limit, by the newspapers as well as by Sven, and it was Morgan, former editor of 'The Mirror', who blew apart their relationship with his scoop on Sven's affair with serial footballer's squeeze Ulrika Jonsson.

Repulsively, Morgan was intent on gloating, and he was put out that all Nancy had to say about Ulrika was: "You think I worry about someone like her? Give me a break". It's a European attitude to sexual peccadillos that is seemingly beyond the comprehension of prurient British editors.

Papers in Europe don't really do sex scandals. When Nancy left her husband, Giancarlo Mazza, a benefactor of Lazio, for Eriksson, the football club's manager, the Italian press celebrated their union as the inspiration behind the club's newfound success.

Morgan showed he has lost none of his red-top charm, interrupting his subject at every turn. He simply couldn't understand why Nancy never spoke to the media despite all the coverage she received. It might have been because she never got a word in edgewise.

Still being pressed on Ulrika, she finally broke: "Piers, how poor, how silly and disgraceful for anybody to talk about someone you don't know. No class. We're talking very low level here." She could have been talking about Morgan.

The end of the WAG era has come with the arrival of another Italian, Fabio Capello. Ferdinand says the players are now more concerned about football than their clothes, and Wayne Rooney had to cut his own hair in his hotel room. So our little Samson gets better when his Delilah is not around.

Since he was sacked by 'The Mirror', Morgan has forged a lamentable career as a judge on reality TV shows such as 'Britain's Got Talent'. Surely it's time for him to be judged. When one of the contestants was struck down by illness at the very start of the new series of 'Last Man Standing' (BBC3, Tuesday), they should have sent Morgan to Ethiopia to try his hand at Suri stick-fighting, "a sport so insanely dangerous that no one from the outside world has ever tried it before". As the seven-foot stick smacked repeatedly into his head, he could have reflected on the irony that it is called a "donga" after the male sexual organ.

The Suri have tens of wives and hundreds of children. So it's just the place for Sven too.