I liked Charlie Bryars with his braying voice and outsize Tolkien trousers. I was in the choir until my voice completely broke sometime in the fourth form. I remember the audition in class. Each boy stood up and sang. Some had the word, "Down," brayed at them after two notes and had to sit down. Others, including me, quickly heard the word, "Wall," and had to stand by the wall. Those sitting down were consigned to musical darkness, those by the wall found they were in the choir whether they liked it or not. I liked it!
I wish I'd known you SGB to consult about BOK when I was at school! I'm sure I could have been miles better at French language but I always felt inferior. I know why too! In our first lesson ever, we were asked who'd done French at Junior school and about three quarters of my form had. My mate sitting next to me had two years start! From then on I always felt I was playing catch up and was conscious of getting stuff wrong and sounding wrong! My two A level subjects were English and History, French was very much a makeweight third ........ but I loved French Literature and was seriously good at it. I was never anything other than top in French Lit', to the extent that I was 10% clear of lads who were going off to do degrees in French and Spanish at good unis. If I could just have said to BOK, old SGB says I should come and talk to you about this sir, I think my whole life might have been different. (My mate through school, because we alphabetically got seated next to one another at the start, liked BOK, despite being so often in trouble that he was on regular report to him.) At school, after school, outside of school, I never met anyone who liked Alf! My dad ran the works football teams on Sheepbridge Sports Ground. Alf was a qualified ref'. My dad, who liked almost everyone, and was himself liked and admired, genuinely disliked Alf, so you aren't alone.
I do, however, think it is time to forgive and forget Archie Moore's detention. He was a nice guy and would not have had any intention of making you so resentful. After all you've lived 365 x 24 x 70 something hours and the detention was just one of them. If you want injustice, Alf banned me from football for weeks for being in a changing room that the rugby and hockey players plastered with thrown mud. Nothing happened to them, because there was no school hockey or rugby team of that age group. Indeed, when I think about it, the only time I ever got sent off at football was for being nutted in the face by a 5-foot midget, who it turned out was a martial arts expert. He lost it completely over some small incident, and I ended up holding him on the floor and calling for the ref's help! And he sent us both off, in a tournament in which the rules said that meant our teams played one short throughout ............ so the whole team got punished for me being nutted by a midget! Now that's injustice. Archie was just a hiccup in the alcopop of life.
By the way, I still think JR is aiming to win at least 12 of the next 13 games and set Sutton or anyone else a difficult target. King's Lynn may well demonstrate how unrealistic that actually is, but it seems to me JR is all about searching for ways to win and that certainly isn't true of the majority of other managers, much though they imagine it is.
I wish I'd known you SGB to consult about BOK when I was at school! I'm sure I could have been miles better at French language but I always felt inferior. I know why too! In our first lesson ever, we were asked who'd done French at Junior school and about three quarters of my form had. My mate sitting next to me had two years start! From then on I always felt I was playing catch up and was conscious of getting stuff wrong and sounding wrong! My two A level subjects were English and History, French was very much a makeweight third ........ but I loved French Literature and was seriously good at it. I was never anything other than top in French Lit', to the extent that I was 10% clear of lads who were going off to do degrees in French and Spanish at good unis. If I could just have said to BOK, old SGB says I should come and talk to you about this sir, I think my whole life might have been different. (My mate through school, because we alphabetically got seated next to one another at the start, liked BOK, despite being so often in trouble that he was on regular report to him.) At school, after school, outside of school, I never met anyone who liked Alf! My dad ran the works football teams on Sheepbridge Sports Ground. Alf was a qualified ref'. My dad, who liked almost everyone, and was himself liked and admired, genuinely disliked Alf, so you aren't alone.
I do, however, think it is time to forgive and forget Archie Moore's detention. He was a nice guy and would not have had any intention of making you so resentful. After all you've lived 365 x 24 x 70 something hours and the detention was just one of them. If you want injustice, Alf banned me from football for weeks for being in a changing room that the rugby and hockey players plastered with thrown mud. Nothing happened to them, because there was no school hockey or rugby team of that age group. Indeed, when I think about it, the only time I ever got sent off at football was for being nutted in the face by a 5-foot midget, who it turned out was a martial arts expert. He lost it completely over some small incident, and I ended up holding him on the floor and calling for the ref's help! And he sent us both off, in a tournament in which the rules said that meant our teams played one short throughout ............ so the whole team got punished for me being nutted by a midget! Now that's injustice. Archie was just a hiccup in the alcopop of life.
By the way, I still think JR is aiming to win at least 12 of the next 13 games and set Sutton or anyone else a difficult target. King's Lynn may well demonstrate how unrealistic that actually is, but it seems to me JR is all about searching for ways to win and that certainly isn't true of the majority of other managers, much though they imagine it is.