any more. Cathy, trying to not look as if she is watching, tracks his every movement as he walks past them and holds his hands out to ask for the ball. Dylan passes it to him and scooping it up as it rolls to his feet he jumps and lobs the ball straight into the hoop raising a smile from the kid. It’s his turn now and he throws as hard as he can but sighs as he hits the hoop again and bounces off to the side. Andrew offers his nugget of gold: Try to spring more off the ground to get more power behind the ball.

Steve: He’s a sports coach now too?The boy retrieves the ball and bounces it a few times before passing it over. Steve takes aim and lobs it gently into the ring. No “power” required apparently. In his veiled demonstration designed to prove Andrew wrong