comments policy

As we say on our about page, sport is of course all about opinion and debate, and generally we open up articles to comment by our readers. Please note that some level of authentication/sign-in may be required to make comments, and making comments may only be possible for a limited period of time after an article is posted depending on when we decide to close comments on a post. Also, please keep it on-topic and keep it clean. We’d like to maintain a light touch in the way we manage comments but will remove any comments that we deem in any way offensive or inappropriate, or take any other action at our discretion. For further background, see the BBC Sport Editors’ Blog house rules page (in particular the section “House Rules”) for a good indication of the sort of criteria we apply.

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