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LEWIS HAMILTON

BRITAIN’S most tedious sports star (Is motor racing a sport? Discuss) greeted his latest world title by aiming a dig at two schoolteachers who didn’t think he would amount to much. ‘I wonder what they are thinking when they watch me now?’ he mused. Chances are they may be thinking what might happen if all the other racers got to drive the best car. Or maybe wondering where a lad born in Stevenage but living in Monaco actually pays his taxes. Much more likely is that, given the stupefying monotony of his chosen profession, they, like most of us, are just not watching at all.

JACK WILSHERE

HEADLINES declared this week that the Arsenal reserve would not make Gareth Southgate’s England squad. In other news, Nick Faldo is not expected to make the cut for next year’s Ryder Cup team.

PATRICE EVRA

THE former Manchester United full back has crossed the line with his attack on a Marseille fan this week but before we judge him totally let us first discover what was said to him. If the insults were racial in nature, Evra was hardly likely to hang his hat on sufficient action from UEFA, was he?