Taylor’s heroics doling out a few attitude adjusters

Looking back now, the man in the optician’s shop probably didn’t mean anything by what he said, but it was still an own goal of massive proportions.

He was yammering on in a blandly engaged way about kids, and his friend’s kids, and their interest in sport, and how you could tire the kids out by getting them to play sport, and so on.

“Another one of my pals has four girls,” he eventually said.