Believe me, I found myself in that position a number of times down the years. I’ve been at United for just over 30 years now as a photographer, but for a few years during that time – probably the best part of a decade – I also had the most unenviable added duty: one that led to anxiety and panic, not to mention verbal abuse and physical danger.
I had to run the players vs staff quizzes.
I couldn’t put an exact year on when it started, but it was after Eric Cantona and Gary Pallister had left, so I’d put it at around 1998 when the gaffer came up to me on a European trip and said, out of the blue: “Peters, are you going to do us a quiz tonight?