For years I thought successful people had access to an exclusive club that people like me would never be able to get into.
Here’s how things changed. A thread🧵
My mum was a teacher, my Dad a charity worker and I lived in a small village in rural Norfolk in the UK countryside.
After messing up at school I started working for a local TV channel, my first salary was £6000 a year.
I was seen by someone at the BBC who called up the TV station where I worked.
They said ‘you are shining star in a sea of shit’. I was 22 and suddenly found myself in
Aug 14, 2018 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
As Fernando Alonso retires from F1. Let me share this brief story about his supreme talent behind the wheel.
It was the summer of 2011 and I travelled to Maranello(the home of Ferrari) for a day of filming with Fernando where he would drive me around the Fiorano test track...
We arrived mid-morning, and the film crew set about fixing the go-pro cameras to the inside of a 458 Italia(I think) that he would drive me in. I was directed into the former house of the great Enzo Ferrari’s that sits right beside the track...
Jul 3, 2018 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Short Gareth Southgate story ahead of the biggest game of his management career tonight...
Back in 2007 I was working on Sportsround on CBBC. I spent my time interviewing all kinds of sports people, plenty of whom were footballers.
I quickly got used to being kept waiting 2-3 hours past the time the interview should happen, interviews being cancelled at the last moment, or doing interviews in nondescript rooms to keep us away from seeing training or interrupting players.
