JAVID DAMES

As anyone who has caught him on TV or radio will be aware, Portsmouth goalkeeper David James is one of the more cerebral of professional sportspeople. No brains in the boots here as his latest well-crafted article in The Guardian at
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/12/30/i_love_my_stats_but_you_need_h.html well illustrates.
Pity the paper's sports production staff aren't in the same league. Or maybe they just don't own a dictionary.
Here's their last par write-off to the James piece: "David James is donating his fee for this article to The National Austistic Society."