Foxed by the form? Follow the advice of our hedgehogs . . .

In this supplement alone, you will be presented with more methods for identifying future winners than most people could ever hope to remember.

The respective authors are experts. In many cases they are hedgehogs, which is meant in the most reverential way possible. According to the original fable, you would rather be a hedgehog than a fox. The fox, it is said, knows many things, whereas the hedgehog knows one big thing. The one left unscathed was the one curled up in a ball.

We know that sport does not work like that. What was Ivan Lendl’s role in Andy Murray’s career, if not to turn him from a hedgehog into a fox? The rest of the footballing world has eventually drawn level with Pep Guardiola, even as his teams have become more accomplished in their simple core philosophy.