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Post by jean on Nov 27, 2010 9:05:02 GMT
...all Goggly glasses and nerdy haircut... Bully! |
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Post by Patrick on Nov 27, 2010 12:23:43 GMT
...all Goggly glasses and nerdy haircut... Bully! Sadly, I was usually on the receiving end.  |
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Post by aubrey on Nov 28, 2010 16:12:54 GMT
I hated all games; had no eye to ball co-ordination and felt sick if made to go upside down in the gym. Team sport was worse because I was always picked last, and ended up in one of those defence positions where you just stand around hoping the ball doesn't come your way. Not the best way to keep fit. That's it: for most people (those who were no good at sports) Games did nothing at all to help fitness. If you were no good the only exercise you got was avoiding the ball. I liked football, and really wanted to be good; the fact that I wasn't made every game a great disappointment. I only really started really enjoying Games when I realised that winning or losing made no bloody difference, to anything: the best ever school football game I was in was one where our team lost a good few (or many) goals to nil. That was great fun. I hated cricket at school, but quite enjoyed the (proper) games that a group of us set up for ourselves; being able to wear pads over long trousers instead of shorts made all the difference. And you didn't get so much of the Play up; and Play the Game crap that you had in a school game. Cricket is a wonderful game; but for all but three or four people it is just standing or sitting about. Nothing to do with fitness. This is football at school: (The best thing I ever saw during a school cricket game was when Wally Heald, the Geography teacher, was fielding out on the boundary, under some trees, where he thought he would be safe. Anyway, the ball, inevitably, was hit high in the air towards him, and started coming down through the trees. Instead of trying to catch it, he did what any sentient being would, and ran about in little circles with his hands over his head.) |
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