Calum Best attends the PFA Awards 2024 at Manchester Opera House in Manchester, England. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
Just before half-time in their Women’s FA Cup third preliminary round tie, the chairman of Dorking Wanderers Ladies, Calum Best, shows his mobile phone. On it is a read-out from the fitness device he wears on his wrist.
“Look at that, all in the red zone,” he says, pointing to a graph that heads relentlessly upwards as if tracking the latest SpaceX rocket launch. “It’s plotting my data as I’m standing here and my heart rate is right up there. Just watching this is like doing a workout for me. Man, I’m living it.”
