The reading of the Classified Football Results at 5pm on BBC 5 Live Sports Report is to be axed by the BBC.

They were read for many years by James Alexander Gordon, and latterly by Charlotte Green, both with vocal styles that have become known to millions as a source of familiar constancy in an often turbulent modern world.

Though scores are available online, mobile, and on the TV, there has always been the tried and trusted method of getting in the car, or listening to the radio on the move. If your mobile coverage fails you (as it often does in congested football grounds), there is always Sports Report to tell you how the rest of the football pyramid fared today.

Sports Report is indeed a shortened affair these days, but as fans, we would prefer to sacrifice a manager's interview than do away with an institution that has served us and the footballing world for decades.