Like many people I always appreciated my parents dutifully turning up to watch my sporting endeavours during my school days. Stood on the touchline or around the boundry whether rain or shine - it must have been mostly pretty awful.
One altercation with an rugby referee aside they never embarrassed me and for that I'm eternally grateful.
So, spare a thought for poor 15 year-old Tom Daley who suffers this parental humiliation just hours after being crowed World Champion.
Watch from behind the sofa...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/diving/8162413.stm
