Dr Hutch

“We’re doing a double issue with a review of the decade,” they said.

“You’ve started work on it early,” I said.

“What?” they said.

“Decade doesn’t end till 2021,” I said. “There wasn’t a year zero, it went straight from 1 BC to 1 AD. So the first decade didn’t end till January 1, 0011. And so on. Unless you have a nine-year decade somewhere.”

“So you celebrated the millennium on January 1, 2001?”

“Yes. It was surprisingly easy to get a restaurant reservation.”

Ultimately I lost the argument. So here it is, a full year early, the Dr. Hutch review of the decade.

The discrepancy matters less than it might, since nothing happened in 2010. It was Team Sky’s first season, but they weren’t much good, and for