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Over the last three weeks I have had the pleasure of entertaining  a young visitor from America.
He is the Grandson of a former neighbour  who returned to his homeland some years ago.
Andrew has had a holiday in England before, but that was in summer some three years ago, when his Grandfather set him the task of buying me a pint of beer and putting a bet on in a betting shop, things that he could do legally over here at eighteen but not at home in Boston.
This year his task was to watch a football match.

His first ever live game was at Penncroft, for he had only seen football at home on TV.

A boring game it was not. Four goals, penalties, a red card, all it lacked was a bigger crowd.

 He thoroughly enjoyed it. So much so that the next weekend he took in a game in the Cheltenham and District League whilst visiting friends in Gloucestershire.

Last Saturday I took him to what became Graham Turner’s last game in charge at Shrewsbury. Unfortunately  the Shrewsbury players  badly let down their manager and turned in an awful display. But Andrew still managed to find some good points in it, but admitted that he found Proper Football better.

Andrew has returned home now, but this time I have given him a task. That task is to take his Grandfather to a Proper Football game in Boston. Yes, such games really do exist. It is not all MLS over there.             Who knows ? We may even get a report.

Good luck for the future, Andrew, and I sincerely hope you get your wish to find an engineering job over here after your graduation next spring and then Proper Football will be a regular occasion.