Are self-obsessed sportsmen really news?

Is it just me or are there rather too many vacuous sportsmen apologising for their inadequacies at the moment?  I don’t think I am the only one who sees golf as a rather pointless pastime for old men and women – but apparently I have been let down by Tiger Woods.

I didn’t realise I had been let down by Tiger Woods until I saw him apologising to me courtesy of BBC News.  And even now I am not sure that he has – though I do feel somewhat let down by the BBC for presenting a stage-managed PR stunt by a disgraced golfer as news.

Surely the only people let down by this self-obsessed man are his wife and children.  And his alleged serial infidelities are nothing to do with me or you – and everything to do with those unfortunate to be married to him or sired by him.

It’s a similar situation with the rather tiresome John Terry/Wayne Bridge affair.  Most people, if they are aware of Terry at all know him to be a weasel-faced over-rated thug who plays in a sort of adequate manner as a centre half for Chelsea (when not injured or showing people around the Chelsea training ground for a fee).  And Wayne Bridge is a so-so full back who took a pile of money to play for mercenaries city.

Now call me cynical – but as Wayne Bridge was estranged from the slapper Terry had been shagging, the media circus that has built up around this story is, shall we say just a little overstated.  Given that weeks later Bridge has decided not to play for England (although I thought that was Fabio Capello’s decision) and not shaken Terry’s hand when Chelski’s overpaid, over-rated mercenaries played Mercenaries-r-us – you begin to suspect that there is more to this story than a bit of rumpy pumpy.

But again does anyone care?   I can’t help thinking that loathsome footballers should stick to what they are not very good at – playing football.  Granted I suppose if you get paid millions for doing what most people do for fun… and get most days off with attractive slappers on tap wherever and whenever you fancy – you might be tempted to ideas of grandeur and become arrogant and self-deluded.  But isn’t that rather obvious… and is it really news?