The Wall Game
‘LOCAL newspaper sports reporter Roy Webster is a dedicated professional.
The freelancer for the Evening News in Norwich has been reporting on the matches of Wroxham’s FC since 1976.
For this, he deserves a medal and, perhaps, a new assignment.
But things have taken a turn for the worse of late and Webster has been banned from his local ground.
‘I don’t know what I’ve done to upset them – they won’t specify what I’ve done wrong and I don’t know what they’re talking about when they say, ‘adverse reports, he laments.
It’s not too bad. My friend, who owns the house next to their ground, has rigged up a little table made out of plywood on the top of the ladder so I can put my notebook and binoculars and mobile phone on there and I stand on a rung and peer over the wall to watch the game.’
So thats how he watches the team play from behind a wall. Instead of how he used to watch the lads – from behind his hands…’
Posted: 22nd, December 2004 | In: Strange But True Comment | TrackBack | Permalink