While thousands of artists are left to rot, all anyone cares about is the football

If archive episodes of ‘The Archers’ are good enough for the rest of us, then why shouldn’t the footie fans be fed a temporary diet of black and white footage of chaps in baggy shorts from the olden days?

Brighton's Aaron Mooy vies with Crystal Palace's Patrick van Aanhol (AFP via Getty Images)

I put a tweet up this week about being “utterly sick of the constant spotlight on football in the news – when’s it coming back blah-blah? And yet theatre/music/comedy venues and the entire hospitality industry don’t get a (f***ing) look in”.

Apart from a few accusations of misandry (yawn) there were over 13,500 who “liked” the tweet.

This is possibly unsurprising considering I’m a performer and a writer and tend to surround myself with like-minded people. I find it makes life easier – let’s face it, we tend to only really like people who broadly agree with us. Those who don’t are really annoying.