I stopped buying The Guardian some time ago in protest at that newspaper’s inexplicable employment of Nicky Fucking Campbell as a sports columnist, an appointment for which there is not enough post-modern irony in the world.
However, according to The Guardian‘s website, Campbell’s pisspoor Thursday “column” (sic) seems not to have appeared for two months now.
Could some kindly Guardian reader and Minitrue contributor please let me know if it’s now truly safe to return to the fold?
It is true that we have not seen Nicky Campbell for a while. He has been classified as “away” for some weeks. However, to my horror, I read the dread words: “Nicky Campbell’s column returns next week” on Maunday Thursday. Yet yesterday there was no sign of it. It is much too soon to conclude that it’s all over for Nicky, but by God you’ve got us hoping. If it doesn’t surface next week, something must be amiss and it’ll be time to google the newswires for confirmation that the barrel has been well and truly scraped and there’s simply nothing left. Fingers crossed.