By Matt Hardy And so we reach the end of a year of sporting excess, or at least an excess of sport. Sunday’s FIFA World Cup Final was the calorific dessert that may well have caused you to come over all Mr Creosote, exploding under the temptation of just one more dish of must-see sporting competition. While we gorge, we should spare a thought for those – individuals, teams, entire sports – who may crumple under our demands for more, more, more. 2022’s sporting calendar was ridiculously crowded, a legacy of earlier Covid postponements, stretched business models and, at the end, football’s pinna…