Each team would somehow pick itself No boys were left upon the shelf No substitutions, sulks or shame If you showed up, you got a game. . Not 2-3-5 or 4-2-4 But 2-8-12 or even more Six centre-forwards, five right wings Was just the normal run of things . Lined up then in such formations […]
Water and windmills, greenness, Islets green;— Willows whose Trunks beside the shadows stood Of their own higher half, and willowy swamp:— Farmhouses that at anchor seem’d—in the inland sky The fog-transfixing Spires— Water, wide water, greenness and green banks, And water seen— By Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) . . . Wednesday 4th February 2015 Dutch […]
