David Coleman was the greatest sports teacher in British history. He taught an entire generation what sport was and how we should love it. Because there was a time, and I know it seems impossible, when most people in Britain hadn’t a clue about sport.
Half a century or so back, there were only two ways of seeing sport. One was to play it, the other was to go to it: leave the house, catch the bus, pay your money, go through the turnstile. Sport was divisive. You either did sport or you didn’t.
Then they invented a thing called