When it comes to sport, intense passion—the kind that inspires you to get tattooed—is so normal that no one is going to question my colleague about it. I don’t think people even see that his desk and my desk are of a kind. No one is going to ask him, “Can you explain to me this whole Dragons thing?” Instead, they’ll ask, “How about that game?” And fair enough! Sport is so embedded into our lives that it gets its own little bit on the news every night. It would be extremely unrealistic if I expected Benedict Cumberbatch to occupy the same position in our culture as football (but what a world
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