Russell Jones's Week Moment: Britain is Centuries Past Being the Biggest Lad in the Schoolyard

Russell Jones's Week Moment: Britain is Centuries Past Being the Biggest Lad in the Schoolyard

As a teenager I was guilty of two major strategic mistakes.The first was to have my growth spurt at a bizarrely early age, fully three years before any of my classmates got around to theirs. By the time I was 13, I stood at almost 6 feet and tipped the bar at a brawny 15 stone.On the face of it this doesn't sound like a bad thing, but you reckon without the two worst things about my school: all of the teachers and all of the pupils. It was a pre…