"[Red]
Devils are good fellows enough.” I said, which was meant to show them that I
was one of the guys, though as a cringing liberal, I’m not sure that’s entirely
true.
I mean,
I do want my children to be involved in sport, at least of the right kind, but
I also worry about injuries—concussions, of course, are the real nightmare—and
I also think that their manners are sometimes not improved by unbridled
competition.