There was one ruse in particular of which Nigel James was fond when he was trying to teach his children – budding footballers all in Reece, Joshua and Lauren – how to behave.
He would be driving from their family home in Mortlake near Richmond, south-west London, to wherever they were training or playing that day, with the siblings squeezed together in the back. Then the call would come through once he had his captive audience right where he wanted them.
‘If I really wanted to get a message across without being overpowering, I would sometimes set up a conversation with a
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