I have never been to GS’s sports day, though we support him at his football games and his cross country events, both of which he is good at, and his cricket which he is singularly rubbish at, but he tries very hard. I rather agree with eglantine. The way junior tournaments are organised these days, all players must bat, field and bowl. He cannot bowl for toffee, often to the detriment of his team, which I know is humiliating for him, but he does what he can with resignation, and we praise him for his resilience. The worst action I ever saw perpetrated by a parent was at a cross country meeting when a mother actually claimed a place at the front of the field for her daughter who was late turning up and actually moved other children out of the way to do it! A marshall took her to task and she argued with him. Only the fact that he threatened to disqualify the child shut her up! If I had been the child I would have wanted the ground to open up and swallow me!