Shaun is such a yawn

tHE overblown EFL Awards at the London Hilton on park Lane on Sunday gave chief executive Shaun Harvey the chance to make his keynote address of the year in front of more than 700 guests representing 51 clubs.

Yet Harvey, the most wooden of speakers as anyone who has seen his Carabao Cup draw displays will testify, wasted precious time telling his audience your Sports Agenda columnist had not been invited and the reasons why — as if anyone, including yours truly, cares a jot. Skipping another Harvey drone-fest was preferable by far.

THE Premier League are relaxed over threatened complaints from clubs about the dominance of agent Jorge Mendes at promoted Wolves, because none of the top flight are squeaky clean when it comes to favouring one agent over another. The club’s Chinese owners Fosun International having a 20 per cent stake in Mendes’s GestiFute agency is worthy of investigation, though.

tHE hapless British Horseracing Authority have achieved the seemingly impossible by upsetting mild-mannered champion jockey richard Johnson with an extra jumps meeting at Ayr on April 30, during the one-week break between the jumps seasons. Johnson said on social media it was ‘very disappointing’, especially as the BHA had told him they ‘forgot’ about the riders’ brief holiday. However, Johnson’s gripe has led the BHA to move the Ayr fixture to May 7.