If what I was about to discuss happened in Britain, there would be wall-to-wall TV coverage, TalkSPORT's Jon Gaunt's apoplectic voice would get even more high-pitched and the Daily Mail would reduce it's carrier bag campaign from nine pages a day to eight so they could report it.
The question is: Should it be any less of a news story just because the incident ha staken place in Honduras rather than Hartlepool?
Here goes: Wigan's Wilson Palacios is playing Premier League football despit the kidnapping of his 15-year-old brother Edwin Rene.
The kinknappers are holding Edwin in the hope of getting money out of Palacios, 23.
It's a shocker, but as Wigan boss Steve Bruce says: "His brother is still kidnapped -it apparently happens quite often in Honduras ñ but the family are in contact with him. And one thing is for certain they are tough people.
"We're hoping it can be resolved quickly, but it shows you everything about the kid that he can still produce a performance like the one he had against City. It is a delight to work with people like him- I wish I had a few more like him."
I'm sure Edwin Rene's kidnappers are hoping the same. Sounds like it's a lucrative business in Honduras.
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