12 August

As a kid growing up playing sport, would any coach have tolerated you crying after a game if you lost? Or tolerated over-excited celebration at winning? Remember the days of losers and winners calmly shaking hands after a game? Because it’s just a game? There are bad winners just as there are bad losers. You can sound a miserable bastard saying these things, but collective behaviour seems to be locked in immature reverse in so many ways. Maybe it’s having been a teacher, a parent and a coach, there’s no way I’d tolerate either of these behaviours in any of those areas.