There are occasions when many of us might have reached for the word ‘repulsive’ in the context of sport over the last 25 years.
For some, watching swathes of Spain fans racially abusing Shaun Wright-Phillips and Ashley Cole during a ‘friendly’ against England in the Bernabeu in 2004 would have been one.
For others, reading about West Ham defender Kurt Zouma kicking and slapping his cat around his kitchen would have been another.
Hearing the details of the allegations of violent abuse made against tennis star Alexander Zverev by two separate women: that would have justified the use of the word, too.