[Devongone]

If there has ever been a combination you'd want to play against it has to be a team of civil servants who call themselves strollers. Our old Sunday League team used to come up against a team who not only played in the poshest area of Chesterfield, but also had brothers on each wing who were their most dangerous players - but one was a solicitor, the other ran his family's rather posh restaurant. Mind you, though our lads who were foundry workers, steel men and miners by and large and were convinced that they could never lose to such a middle-class team, somehow they were prepared to forget they had a long-haired student in goal (me), a civil servant and the deputy town clerk as full backs, and sometimes a very promising schoolboy on the wing ......... Nevertheless we identified as working class, and identity matters. That's why I love these Scottish teams. Their names just resonate.

I've got a feeling that if the University of Stirling hadn't made the huge mistake of rejecting me (maybe I should have sent them clips of me keeping goal ....) I'd still be up in Scotland now.