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They confirmed my view that I am nothing but a paid provocateur of the rah-rahs, wilfully abusing my position by travel writing any kind of crap I like, so long as it bags league, while totally ignoring anything that reflects my - and, by God, I hope they stop me before I kill again - affection for union. At the least, it exposed that there is far more genuine passion out there for league than I suspected travel and I warmly thank those people for their emails. Nevertheless, there were still plenty of messages from others, saying they thought I was more or less right, and that even though league has clearly come back a long way since the mid 1990s, it is nowhere near back to the days when most sports followers could name the Balmain pack backwards. Armstrong lanced Told yers, didn't I? Told yers all last year that there would be a major book out this year labelling one of the world's most famous sports stars as a drug cheat and, on schedule, there it is. Called LA Confidential - The Secrets of Lance Armstrong, it is co-written by journalists David Walsh and Pierre Ballester and excerpts have been appearing in the weekly French magazine L'Express.
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