Photo credit: Mike Driscoll “I just felt like a failure. I thought I’d failed at what I’d been trying to do and not only had I not achieved what I wanted, I just didn’t feel able to do anything.” Being a professional athlete is a career full of extreme highs and, sometimes, extreme lows. No-one [...]
Photo credit: Joel Caldwell As the saying goes, every cloud has a silver lining. No-one understands this better than Lizzie Carr - or Lizzie Outside as many know her - who was diagnosed with cancer aged just 26. “It completely blindsided me to be honest,” she recalled. “I didn’t expect it at all. I thought [...]
“I didn't really know what my purpose was when I was getting out of bed.” “I didn’t see any purpose in my life anymore, I’d stopped playing cricket and actually once I stopped playing cricket, life got worse. ” These are the words of Kate Cross and Sarah Taylor respectively, a pair with many similarities. [...]
And there we have it, the beloved beard has been sheared off once again. The temptation to leave it as a whopping great ‘Walrus’ ‘tache - à la Merv Hughes circa 1993 Ashes - was very high but that would be cheating. Every year I ask myself why I do this. It always shocks and [...]
