Call me nostalgic, but the Grand National ain’t what it used to be | Stephen Moss

The once-great race is now sanitised, cricket is in thrall to Twenty20 and rugby is a joke. Or am I just getting old?If I had to name three highlights from a lifetime, too much of which has been spent watching televised sport and too little reading Homer and Hesiod, they would be Gareth Edwards’ try for the Barbarians against the All Blacks in 1973 (though that final pass from Quinnell was surely forward), Geoffrey Boycott’s hundredth hundred against Australia in 1977, and Red Rum’s third Grand National victory, also in 1977. The fact that all three come from the 1970s no doubt demonstrates ho…