Reverse Swing

As someone who has got into difficulties in pedalos in the past, my sympathies go out to Andrew Flintoff. At best they’re fiendishly designed contraptions, traps for the unwary at any hour, but particularly so at 4a.m. in the morning. I had a particularly painful experience in the harbour at Aiguablava a few years when I was jeered by rich Catalan families from the decks of their yachts. I just hope that Freddie’s experience was not of this magnitude.