School days are supposed to be the best days of your life and part of that experience usually involves some strenuous physical activity . I asked some colleagues to give me their recollections of what happened to them on the sports field and beyond, and this is what they told me… Cup winners When I was about ten, the football team from our year inexplicably made it to the cup final of the local schools’ league. I say inexplicably because I only remember us losing nearly every match we played. Anyway, in the final I set up the winning goal, a brilliant cross to my mate David who headed the ball in just before the final whistle. I still have a photograph of the team holding the cup. Forest hike I remember having to lead a group of eight boys on a school expedition for the best part of two days when I was a teenager. Even though we got lost at one point, I managed to keep them all together and got them from one end of a large forest to the other a...