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Women’s football: balls to the sexists

June 14, 2019 By Ellen 1 Comment

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 Leave a Comment

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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