Arguing with a seven-year-old about whether their dad’s car goes faster than yours isn’t a good look even if you’re also seven. I was slightly older than that when I engaged in this particular debate, though, at 43.

If you’d have told me when I woke that morning that having a full-blown row with a kid would be an element of my day, I’d never have believed you, but welcome to motherhood. This boasty little brat wronged my child, so the gloves were off, the vehicular hill I’d chosen to die on inexplicable on every level.

And so, let she who is without sin cast the first stone in Luke Littler’s mum’s direction: when it comes to defending your son, life takes you to some unexpected places.

Lisa Littler had already endured the ordeal of standing among the crowd at the

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