I went to a school which was obsessed with sport. However I wasn’t terribly keen on the idea at the time. In fact Tim McLeish and I once spent a whole term’s worth of PE lessons hiding in the music department so the teacher wouldn’t know I existed.

It wasn’t till I was 14 that I found out  that I didn’t hate sport. I just hated team sport. I’m not one of life’s natural team players. However I love running, swimming, cycling, squash, martial arts and loads more individual sports. At this point I found it hard to believe that no-one had told me about how much fun sport could be. Of course they had. It’s just that they weren’t very good at marketing it.

Over the years since I’ve seen hundreds of people have that “A-ha!” moment, where they realise what all these sporty people have been talking about.

It’s this difference between how much fun sport can be, and how it’s sold to people which drove me to set up Make Sport Fun. Our goal is to show people that sport can be fun. It just might be that you’ve tried the wrong ones before!