I am so not rooting for Emirates Team New Zealand in the America’s Cup any more. The exhibition that they put on today was not worthy of a top-level professional sailing team. Things go wrong on race boats and the test of skill is dealing with it. They failed the test big-time, embarrassing themselves and their supporters. They don’t deserve the Cup with that kind of teamwork (or lack of it). A torn spinnaker is a frequent problem, the sails are fragile. It happens. You deal with it. There can be no excuses: it wasn’t blowing hard, there were no big seas, it was daytime, they had lots of people and they’ve had ample opportunity to practice. They even had a new chute on deck being hooked up. Come on guys. Someone should be fired.

And a little financial comment for sarcastic relief.