ILLUSTRATION: STEPHEN COLLINS
My niece was in Scotland’s Under-19 World Cup lacrosse team some 20 years ago. She was – and still is – a good tennis player, too. Fiercely competitive, driven and, it must be said, not always a good loser.
Runs in the family – well, at least, the not always being a good loser bit. Which is why when I was around 12 years old, my father gave me a small piece of paper and told me to keep it in my wallet at all times.