The Thompsons flex their punditry muscles for this month's sports issue...
Nottingham Forest
We haven’t seen them play much recently. In fact, the only time we’ve been to watch them live was when we were ten-years-old. But we hear they did very well and we are delighted to see them back in the first division. We know it’s called the Premier League now, but we don’t really understand that. There are four divisions and this is the first one. Say whatever, but that’s not changing.
Ice Hockey
Yes, we’ve been to the Ice Stadium to watch the Panthers. They have three halves, which definitely makes no sense. Also, what is with that damned organ music going on all the time? We don’t really approve of all the fighting the players do, they should just calm down a bit. Our nephew is very good at skating and plays for the junior Panthers team. He had a skating birthday party in Sutton-in-Ashfield and tried to get us on the ice, but it was a case of “No, thank you.”
Sporting Achievements
We both did rowing when we were younger and won our first tankard at Peterborough in 1988. More recently, we joined the Nottingham Croquet Club. There were seven lessons as part of the introductory course and we managed four of them. We enjoyed it, but it was also bedding plant season and started interfering with work, so we had to call a halt to it. Our father once cycled from here to Rotherham on a three-speed bike to see his aunt. That’s a fair old way, huh?
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