When a friend suggested I contact this “ripper bloke with some great stories to tell,” I made the call feeling pretty confident he was good to go. The phone call, a mere formality that would mean just making a time to meet could not have been further from the truth. So I found out when Max Carroll answered with “Who put you up to this,” with a nervous laugh in his voice.

My presumption proved wrong, as I thought our friend had already teed him u