A devastating shortage of superlatives has been declared in newsrooms around the country as sportswriters struggle to gushingly overhype the Six Nations performance of Joe McCarthy. “We’ve ransacked every thesaurus within reach,” said one exasperated hack dismantling his shrine to Johnny Sexton. “If we don’t secure more hyperbole soon, how will readers know that Joe… Read more »
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