Laurie Oakes. It is said Orson Wells had a weight problem at the end of his life. Mr L Oakes looks as if he’s trying to out do Gérard Depardieu in the belly gut championships. Nevertheless, it will be a great relief to be freed from Oakes’ opinionated flapdoodle; apart from the other idiot Richard George Carleton there never has been a more tedious know-all, know-nuttin commentator than Oakes.