The secret player

Staying cool when a big name turns up at your local race is mandatory

What was the first game you ever attended? My first Nottingham Forest game wasn’t actually until 1994 and it was against Manchester City at Maine Road. My dad’s a Liverpool fan and, living in Worksop,

Tessa Waugh does her best to play ball when attending the cricket with her father as a substitute for her son, relishing the juxtaposition of chats on bladder botox with military etiquette

Sometimes, whether down to judgement or pure bad luck, things go wrong. We gathered a team of experts and asked them to tell us about a time the proverbial hit the fan – and how they escaped.

At risk of sounding like your teacher when they told you off for not listening at school because you were daydreaming about your new bike – what was the last thing I just said to you? If you can’t rem

KARL MORRIS