Just when you thought the ‘uncanny valley’ had finally run out of unsettling surprises, the universe delivers another masterpiece: ‘Old Football’, a fresh leathery sphere ready to join ‘Old Ball’ animatronic basketball in the commentary box. It seems our future sporting spectacles will be narrated not by insightful pundits, but by a dynamic duo of geriatric, disembodied orbs. Welcome to the future, where your match-day insights come courtesy of a pair of well-worn automatons whose analysis will be as round and repetitive as their very forms.
