You encounter a fair few of them in sport. Individuals of vast ego, so wedded to their own bountiful publicity that they just can’t appreciate how deeply unattractive they look.
Christian Horner was the latest, on Saturday. The self-styled star of F1’s ‘Drive to Survive’ Netflix show was apparently convinced that parading up the Bahrain paddock with Geri Halliwell, surrounded by camera crews, would help him put the lid on a crisis.
That one short, choreographed scene, five minutes in the making, would counteract a dump of WhatsApp messages which, in a nutshell, had revealed a female employee’s desperate attempts to fend off her boss’s seedy approaches in a way which would not jeopardise her own employment prospects.