Law of the Playground

The name of our victorious sixth form five-a-side team. The gutless teachers changed it to “The Beard Brothers” when our triumph was announced in assembly.

Now, for some reason I’ve always thought that this modified title implied that we took to the field with our arsecress braided to that of other team members, creating a monstrous pentagon of hairy bottoms.

This would have been quite an achievement, perhaps an even greater one than merely plaiting one’s own anal beard and subsequently beating all comers at five-a-side football.

The Boy T