Philipp Lahm, no stranger to controversy, today said players should 'keep their lives off the pitch' - but the simple fact is that is a piss poor way to deal with homophobia in football. We have to get past the idea that in a football stadium full of typical blokes, that a typical bloke can't be gay. Players and fans deserve better.

In Durban tomorrow the IOC will announce the host city of the 2018 Winter Games - Korea line up the favourites having been beaten by Putin's Russia four years ago, and Canada before that, but with Tokyo launching its own 2020 bid in the final stages of this race, many think it may not be third time lucky for PyeongChang.

The BBC gave up on the Paralympics in Vancouver because it lost the rights to the 2012 games to Channel 4. Paralympic athletes and the British people deserved better from its national broadcaster and the Corporation's cheap excuses just don't add up when Paralympic sport is growing all over the world, let alone London 2012.