Decimal Places Saturday 19th SeptemberIt’s a bumpy old track, but we rack up at Elton Leisure in pretty good time, ready for the introductory speech from the pair of enthusiastic battleground marshals, with only Monty Don missing the opening (verbal) sa...
Boots ‘n’ All Friday It’s the Sponsored Shoot Out at a very wet OSP. Coach Harris is doing his best to tally his charts on a plastic-covered clipboard, Coach Delaney goes with technology to record the Girls’ events on his phone, while Development ...
The Scarlet Pimpernel Saturday 6.35. Rack up at GL2 to find the second of the big green gates has been weighted down and fitted with a Covid-style gazebo. Squeeze in through Gate No 1, with only the wing mirrors suffering from the appendages of Gate No 2....
Homework Aquae Sulis. Home to the internationally acclaimed Roman Baths, a Grade 1-listed 7th Century Abbey famous for its gothic fan vaulting, the grand Pump Rooms where visitors from all corners of the globe drink spa water from the thermae springs next...
Comebacks It’s happened before. Well, almost…. 9th October 2004 We’re playing St Albans at home, having won each of our first three matches. Tom Warren converts Jon Blackwell’s cross to give us an early lead and despite dominating the opening peri...
Operation Restart It’s Operation Restart 2 – or is it 3? The last restart came with 25 minutes to go at Erdington, but shortly after coming back from five-down to draw five-all, Boris decides enough is enough and he says we can’t play for a month. â...
Imagine It’s an early-morning departure as we’re off to south London and collecting Monty & Father Don and Captain Cooper along the way. The first venue is easy to find as it’s triangulated between the BP garage, next door’s forty-six big blac...
Happy Christmas It’s been an interesting week, starting with two sleepless nights imagining what Mother Hawkins is likely to say (or do) if Father H actually spends £600 of their hard-earned on that John Lennon poster he saw last week in an antique sho...
Smiler Thursday Thursday morning and the sporting lockdown is finally over. We have a two-hour ‘reunion’ session at a sun-drenched New Meadow Park with the Bs and GCFC U12s for a couple of warm-up games and thirty minutes focusing on pressing the oppo...
Warm-Up Friday I’ve just discovered that Captain Cooper doesn’t like peas or homework, does like The Goonies and Woolacombe Sands and once got extremely embarrassed by falling over his own two feet. And judging by the erudite way in which he explained...