Thrown some advice on the Delap delivery

HUMAN slingshot Rory Delap strides into the room, a new World Cup football loaded in his oxter.

Over a firm handshake, I ask him to teach me how to throw like he does on the telly.

As he looks, curious, from one member of his entourage, to me, and slowly back again – I think of a celebrated article about a famous weightlifter, by Paul Solotaroff, that I once read.