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  Tilis started first by looking at baseball contracts, mostly   they’re longer by nature, and the ideas might resonate with the son of a baseball player. He called NBA teams, too. And in doing so, the Chiefs started to shape a vision they’d eventually present to Mahomes—one that would be founded on, yes, first, paying him his worth, and at the same time allowing for the team to plan to build around him for years and years to come. It was going to be positioned, as the Chiefs saw it, as a partnership between player and team, more so than any deal the franchise had ever done before. “And [Cabott] has been on the partnership thing since we drafted Pat,” Tilis says. “It’s definitely a partnership, and Pat and Chris really wanted a guaranteed contract. We couldn’t do that. What we could do was what we ended up with, which is we’ll just guarantee everything a year out. And they followed the math and the cap numbers and the cash numbers and all that, and it was like, How are we...

  What a joy it was to see Ramon Tikaram playing Ch Supt Praveen Badal in Happy Valley  the man in charge of the Basic Command Unit that Sarah Lancashire’s lead character works for. It is worth noting that currently the Met does not have a single BCU commander of colour. Although I did notice that in series two the wardrobe department got his shoulder epaulettes wrong – superintendent instead of chief superintendent – it is still thrilling to see this representation on screen. Sgt Catherine Cawood (played by Lancashire), meanwhile, is a lesson in the realities of policing, and showing how it should be done. Take her monologue in the opening scene of the first season of Happy Valley. She is speaking to Liam, a young man standing on a park climbing frame who is threatening to set himself alight. “I’m Catherine by the way,” she says. “I’m 47, I’m divorced, I live with my sister – who’s a recovering heroin addict – I have two grownup children. One dead and one who doesn’t speak t...