Monday, March 12, 2007

FA Cup Draw

I watched the BBC coverage of the FA Cup Semi Final draw live on the Internet today. No, not the pictures from Soho Square but the sports page: xxxxxxxx v xxxxxxxx etc.

I know it's sad isn't it?

Anyway whilst I was sat there looking at the screen I cast my mind back thirty years and beyond. Between 1960 and 1975 my Dad was a driving instructor, for the period 1970-75 he was self-employed and he would always make a point of sitting down at lunchtime with the radio and listening to the various rounds of the F.A Cup being drawn. When I got home from school there would be a sheet of paper on the table with all the matches written down as they had been drawn with a tick by West Ham, this obviously didn't happen much after the first Saturday in January!

Funny how these little Proustian moments can sneak up on you.

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