One of my childhood sporting heroes was cricketer Derek Underwood. Then, 25 years after he retired, I was at Canterbury's ground with my son who was 11. We took his bat and I bowled to him for hours on the grass by a bush. Then I said I wanted to watch the game for a while.
We sat down and my lad got a bit bored and said 'I want to keep playing'. The man in front turned round and said politely 'Hey sonny, your dad's been bowling at you for ages. Let him have a few minutes' and it all calmed down. I looked at him and realised it was Derek Underwood.
I garbled 'You're Derek Under- I watched you here I was sat over there and you spun the ball, you span the ball and they called you Deadly and you played for England and beat Australia, do you remember?' He was utterly charming. And he span the ball and beat Australia. RIP