So singer Robbie Williams has been taking some flak after he was caught out on Instagram applying sanitising gel after shaking hands with his fans.

Robbie is a keen golfer and a few years ago I caught him tucking into sausage on brown at the halfway hut at Sunningdale. He glanced up and said “don’t take me photo, its me day off”. (Hello. Did I have a camera?)

This “gel gate” reminded me of one of those things which one professional golfer said which got picked up by television. In the early days of Tiger Woods career he was paired with a contemporary who instructed his caddie at the end of the round when they all shook hands with Woods

“Be sure and wash your hands now”.

Wouldn’t give the thumbs up to a unclassy comment like that.