Never Mind Competitive Dad, It's the Young 'Uns You Need to Watch ; Guidelines Guy Henderson Takes a Quirky Look at Our World and Offers Light Relief to All Guideliners

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ONCE, on the Fast Show, there was a sketch in which an ultra- competitive dad took on his son in a game of cricket in the park.

Ultra-competitive dad insisted that his son was out LBW and then proceeded to hammer his bowling through the trees in order to rack up a monster score against him a score of Australian Headingley proportions in fact.

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Never Mind Competitive Dad, It's the Young 'Uns You Need to Watch ; Guidelines Guy Henderson Takes a Quirky Look at Our World and Offers Light Relief to All Guideliners

But the sketch has never been written to honour the place in domestic history of the ultracompetitive child.

I first came up against the phenomenon while playing rugby with my then-primary school-age nephew on Paignton Green a year or two ago.

I had hoped he would show some mercy for his elderly relative.

He might, ...

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