This Sporting Life Page #3

We haven't much for tea.

Don't boast.

He might think we're poor.

Sit down.

Hi, young un.

You're getting very heavy.

I know.

Tell me,

what have you been doing?

Been shopping with mam.

Have you! And where else?

To see our dad.

How'd the match go?

Did you win?

He played a blinder, Missus.

Did he?

They signed him on?

It's not as quick as that.

But he can ask anything he likes.

Isn't that right?

Isn't that right?

I don't know.

It won't pay them to turn you down.

They'll give him it, Mr. Johnson.

Aye, he'll sail away.

He'll sail away.

He'll be very pleased.

I'll see you, Dad.

You mind me helping you, Frank?

Why do you say that?

I'm in a position to help.

It's only right.

Aye, I think it's right.

You don't mind?

No.

Don't know what you're talking about.

That's all right, then.

I'll see you.

You know, any time at all.

See you, Dad.

You play for nothing?

Amateur pay, thirty bob.

That's hardly a wage.

They pay good when the sign you on.

The old man treats you like a son.

I call him Dad because he's old.

I don't mean that.

What then?

The way he treats you.

He ogles you,

looks at you like a girl.

Don't come with that.

- He's interested, that's all.

- I'd say excited.

What are you getting on about?

He hasn't much to get excited about.

He's done a lot for me.

He's never had a job.

How do you know?

I've got eyes.

Just look at his hands.

He's got awful, soft hands.

What's hands got to do with it?

He's got awful hands,

I got awful hands.

We're not all women.

It's nothing to do.

You husband, I gather he worked

at Weavers Engineering.

Who told you?

Johnson said he used to know him.

He told you something else.

No.

I expect he thought it's very

chivalrous of you, helping

a widow, and all that.

It's nothing to you

what people think?

It isn't.

It's bringing Eric's name

into it I don't like.

When Eric died

all my world went out.

He'd say he didn't know why

he was living.

He used to say:

"How was I ever made alive?"

When he went, I felt I

hadn't been proper to him.

I hadn't made him feel he belonged.

I shouldn't be telling you this.

I, I don't mind.

No.

You being what you are.

Self-reliant. All that cockiness.

You don't seem worried like Eric was.

I:

mentioned it because

I saw you polishing the boots.

Is there anything the matter?

No.

Like I said, I don't mind.

1.000 pounds.

A thousand.

1.000.

That's a lot for

a player just entering.

I want 1.000 down.

Look here, Frank,

it's not a comprehensive

insurance policy.

Mr. Riley's offer is fair.

I want a thousand pounds down.

We're not trying to put

anything over on you.

Get that into your head.

But we represent other people.

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