International Table Tennis Federation 22 Feb 2021 Scan the globe and wherever your compass points, you will find someone who has unbridled enthusiasm for the sport of table tennis. Not because a whole gambit of trophies has been won at local, national or world level, not because of having excelled as a coach or gained high office as a distinguished official but for totally unusual and innovative reasons that stagger the imagination. By Ian Marshall Such a person is Josep Francesch, resident in Vimbodi, a village in Catalonia, Spain; small by any standards, the 2018 census recorded just 917 inhabitants. He is a player and assistant coach at the local Taula Borges Tennis Club and is most certainly putting his small village on the map; not because his club has gained outstanding success but because of his quite incredible collection, one of which the curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London would by proud!