Robbo is in safe hands

iT iS safe to say that 82-year- old Hodder & Stoughton sports book publisher Roddy Bloomfield will have used his red censorship pen a lot less with rugby union commentator ian Robertson’s manuscript of his upcoming autobiography than he has done with Derek Pringle’s ribald account of life on the road as a cricketer in the 1980s.

Robbo subtitles his book ‘47 years of fun with the BBC’ and hardly has a bad word to say about anyone, not even difficult england head coach eddie Jones. Only Sam Burgess’s call-up into england’s 2015 world Cup squad warrants criticism.