Thoughts That Football Brings
With the England men’s valiant effort now fallen by the wayside, I thought I would choose a poem about football—this one is “My Old Football” by J. Milton Hayes.
A Fairer-Minded Chap
This week’s choice is “A Friendly Game of Football” by the Australian writer Edward ‘Ted’ Dyson and I have chosen it to mark the birthday of a friend’s son who is a sportsman, a footballer and referee. I hope he’s never had to ‘umpire’ a match like this one.