Sport can be boring. There are tennis matches between big servers which you think might as well take the form of the best-of-five tiebreaks and football games when a goal seems so unlikely that it might be a good idea to go straight to a penalty shoot-out. Likewise cricket, likewise rugby; there are days when even the sports you love the best bore you almost to tears.
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