What was the Sunday Times thinking?
That grand old dame of Sunday newspapers which desperately wants to be a tabloid - the Sunday Times - has had (another) nip and tuck this week.
We now have the “luxury” of a stand-alone sports section. What they forgot to mention was that it’d be a tabloid and as tight as a stingy uncle.
Previously, sport was “appended” to the back of the ‘Insight & Opinion’ section, a phenomenon that seems to be unique to South African newspapers. Most papers in the US and the UK have stand-alone sports sections.
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