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Women’s football: balls to the sexists

June 14, 2019 By Ellen

A late submission to football chat… I first decided football wasn’t for me sometime in the late 1980s when, with a Dons-supporting boyfriend at Pittodre, the opposition substituted a black player. The racism shocked and sickened me. That these ordinary folk in the stand beside me had brought a banana with them to express their […]

Filed Under: boys Tagged With: boys, feminism, football, in the world, Scotland, Sexism, sport, Women's World Cup

Game of the gastropods and other matters

June 20, 2016 By Ellen

We have been beset by first world problem at the Palace of Bundance lately, most significantly the fact that a certain football match coincided with the Battle of the Bastards. For the uninitiated, that’s the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones for this series and is a Big Deal. So much so that Boy Three […]

Filed Under: boys, family, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: children, crisps, football, Game of Thrones, humour, in my life, in the world, snails

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