Well, that was a spunky twenty-four hours for Jermaine Jenas.

He’s pirouetted from a pugilistic ‘I can tell you I’m not happy – there are two sides to every story – and I’m going to be speaking with my lawyers on the issue’ to a pusillanimous ‘I am ashamed, and I am deeply sorry’.

He never switched play that effortlessly during his playing career.

So following his booty-bulletin Beeb booting, he’s boinged from barking unbending brief broadcasts to being a broken, blubbering blob.

A flaccid Jenas, no less.

After this wholesome apology, we will doubtless witness some eye-wateringly pricy therapy and a short path to absolution.

That’s shorthand for ‘I am myself a victim of innate failings for which I am not responsible’.

There are indeed two sides to every story – and arguably every person too.

The BBC has predictably come up smelling of rosebuds. Had Jermaine been texting schoolboys, he would have doubtless got a swift slice of gardening leave and a potent pay rise.

Lamentably, it is staggering that the BBC had never previously taken any credible action germane to his actual job performance – at any juncture, they could have canned the berk for being manifestly crap.

On a positive note, though, this whole episode has opened up infinite possibilities for pertinent limericks:

There was a sports pundit named Jenas

Who sent girls texts (*edit as appropriate or inappropriate).