MARTIN JOHNSO

He was, as it turned out, a prophet 30 years ahead of his time. Hang your heads in shame all of you who tittered when Lord Ted suggested that an England Ashes defeat in 1989 might have been down to the alignment of the planets (and mine is hanging low enough to be polishing my shoes), but Dexter was right all along. The twin architects of disaster were not so much Alderman and Waugh as Venus and the Milky Way.
Last Sunday’s Women’s World Cup final was, by all accounts, a jolly exciting match, with the result in doubt right up until the final over...