Wimbledon, cricket and strawberries: the joys of summer’s ‘odd years’

The ‘even years’ of a decade – 2010, 2012, and so on – are packed with Olympic drama and World Cup heartbreak. But 2017 has a different rhythmThey are sometimes called “the odd years”. The “even years” – those that end in 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8 – snaffle the most prestigious, watercooler, down-the-pub sporting events: football World Cups, the Euros, Olympics. The odd years, meanwhile, are stuck with just the solid perennials: Wimbledon, the Tour de France, Test matches.But there are pleasures to be had in the odd years, in the same way that strawberries taste better when bought from a roadside stall…