Sports reporters are rarely good writers. The older ones seem to be the worst, and the more senior ones who can insist that their stuff be published without editing are the worst of all.
James Lawton of the Independent is one of these. His prose is often excruciating. Even by his standards, though, this sentence from today's column on the Ryder Cup is a doozy:
"Also, and you could see it plainly enough when Faldo embraced him after he had won his fourth straight point in the cause that had looked to be lost the moment Garcia could not disguise the fact he had no answer to the power and the authority of young Anthony Kim in the opening singles match, that here was, for the foreseeable future, probably the most dynamic candidate to lead a European drive to regain some of their old competitive edge in South Wales in two years' time."
Words fail me, but not nearly as much as they seem to fail James Lawton.
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