I have spoken before about the mental challenges in sport when faced with a trial. My Middlesex trials - over six weeks, came in 1990 for...

Muffin usually hates having her picture taken and nearly always looks down as soon the phone comes out. However, she was getting stroked...

Not much remains of my old art portfolio, but my painstaking portrait of Bob Marley still stands, and stands at home and a reminder of...

In the 2000s, I was playing for my local club Old Finchleians, before a spell in non-league football at Edgware reserves, latterly...

Many celebrities will often mention and boast how they had a 'football trial' somewhere. It gives them some extra street cred depending...

Everytime I mention the name of Bella, my best friend shudders. Beautiful, but mildly unhinged. She told me she didn't like what I did...

A slightly misleading headline maybe, but a few things have happened to me with a sense of deja vu, and certainly events have happened of...

It came in 1992, a great holiday with my mates from school after the first year of A-levels. Memorable in so many ways, when Guy decided...

The first real influence on my own cricket career was Howard Masters. A brilliant captain. 'H' as he was known, was a hugely successful...

I used to date one actress who vanished into thin air, then managed a date with someone who appeared in Sliding Doors. That failed to go...

Legend has it that actor William Terriss haunts Covent Garden tube station, so too the Adelphi Theatre. Terriss was seen in 2005 at the...

Teletext was a thing of beauty. That was our number one news source in the 80s and 90s. I worked for Clubcall, the premium rate telephone...

Sorry, another cricket matter. But the story of Peter Sogbodjor needs telling. We've all read the book "The Best Player You Never Saw",...

This is perhaps the weakest anecdote ever told, weaker than all of Sir Peter Ustinov's entire back catalogue. In fact, there's no...

Being a hyprochondriac can present its problems. I am a fairly studious character, a fault some may say, but my fascination with health...

When I started out in journalism, the landscape was very different to what we see today. It was 'old school' with ashtrays at desks,...