David Mitchell's columns may get a bit tortuous at times, but
this may be the funniest (or at least the most inventive) newspaper piece I've read all year. You need to click through to the story he's referring to. And technically it's about sport.
For what it's worth, it sounds like the story itself is a storm in a teacup - just a communication failure that could have been sorted out like grown ups.
Slow progress on the achilles, by the way. Entering Rest Week 3 now. I think it's going to take more than 3 weeks, but I'm hopeful that I will eventually get started and conduct a super-lite training program to get me to the start line.