The twinkles in the eyes, the beaming smiles of recognition and the flashes of childlike glee are telltale signs of what Sporting Memories is all about.
There was the bedridden pensioner who burst into life on a Zoom call at the mere mention of Sir Don Bradman. It transpired that as a 12-year-old he bowled in the nets to the greatest batsman of all time during an Australian cricket team tour of the south coast of England.
Then there was the aging member who wowed his club friends with vivid tales of how he used to coach a rough and ready schoolboy called Vinnie Jones long before the football hardman swapped Wimbledon’s Crazy Gang for the Hollywood set.
