IB - as you sometimes do, you've accused me of your own fault: I have been (and would be again if it was reregulated) very keen on English club-football; in my blank-verse poem #1, I detailed my 7 years of junior football in Sydney - during which, as with many youngsters around the world, I keenly followed football here (The Big Match, magazines that promoted Alf Ramsey-like calm and discipline, rather than modern passion and tolerance, etc.).