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- Sep 21, 2013
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- London
It was a tradition. No one knew when it had begun or who started it. But it had gone on for as long as anyone could remember.
Every year, at the end of their final year the girls who were leaving for university challenged the female staff to a hockey match. It was always a good humoured affair played in the true spirit of sport.
Until this year.
It had been a difficult year. There was no denying that. Girls that age were always rebellious, but this year their behaviour had been particularly trying, as a result of which discipline had been tightened to try to control them. But surely that was all behind them now. At least so the teachers thought. It was certainly what Helen Richards, the senior games mistress, thought as she addressed the staff team in their dressing room.
‘Ladies, we mustn’t underestimate our opponents. That’s always a mistake, a big mistake. They may be younger than us, and fitter than some,’ she added with a sidelong glance at Margaret Williams, who taught English literature and whose qualification for selection as goalkeeper was that her plump frame would fill more of the goal than any of the other teachers. ‘But we have experience on our side,’ Helen continued, ‘and after the year we have had this will be a good chance to show the girls the advantages of maturity.’
Stirring words indeed, but as the staff ran out onto the pitch in their crisp white shirts and pleated dark blue skirts concealing sensible pristine white panties, there were signs that this was not going to be a normal match. For a start, at least half the school had turned up to watch, whereas normally there would have been just a scattering of friends and supporters. And those signs increased when the girls ran out from their dressing room, attired in tight white t-shirts that left no doubt that they were not wearing bras, grey micro skirts that barely covered their buttocks, and thigh high red socks.
The headmistress, in accordance with custom, was refereeing the match, although her knowledge of the rules was equalled only by her inability to keep up with the play.
She blew a sharp blast on her whistle for play to begin and Helen passed the ball to Jayne Sawyer.
This was Jayne’s first year in post as a newly qualified science teacher, but her sartorial standards were the talk of staff and students alike. She seemed to wear something different every day and never the same thing twice. Rumour had it that she threw everything away as soon as it was dirty. Some said this was because she couldn’t bear the thought of wearing anything that wasn’t brand new. Others said it was because she was too lazy to bother washing her clothes.
Whatever the reason, she was well liked as a teacher and skillful on the hockey field. She weaved her way deftly around girls who seemed to make little effort to stop her until she tripped over an apparently carelessly trailed stick. Propelled forward by her momentum, she landed on her face and slid through an unfortunately located patch of mud. As she staggered to her feet, she appealed for a foul, but the referee waved play on and Helen curtly told her to watch where she was going. Jayne ignored her and busied herself trying to brush the mud off her blouse, only to succeed in smearing it. So busy was she that she missed the excitement developing on the other side of the pitch.
Every year, at the end of their final year the girls who were leaving for university challenged the female staff to a hockey match. It was always a good humoured affair played in the true spirit of sport.
Until this year.
It had been a difficult year. There was no denying that. Girls that age were always rebellious, but this year their behaviour had been particularly trying, as a result of which discipline had been tightened to try to control them. But surely that was all behind them now. At least so the teachers thought. It was certainly what Helen Richards, the senior games mistress, thought as she addressed the staff team in their dressing room.
‘Ladies, we mustn’t underestimate our opponents. That’s always a mistake, a big mistake. They may be younger than us, and fitter than some,’ she added with a sidelong glance at Margaret Williams, who taught English literature and whose qualification for selection as goalkeeper was that her plump frame would fill more of the goal than any of the other teachers. ‘But we have experience on our side,’ Helen continued, ‘and after the year we have had this will be a good chance to show the girls the advantages of maturity.’
Stirring words indeed, but as the staff ran out onto the pitch in their crisp white shirts and pleated dark blue skirts concealing sensible pristine white panties, there were signs that this was not going to be a normal match. For a start, at least half the school had turned up to watch, whereas normally there would have been just a scattering of friends and supporters. And those signs increased when the girls ran out from their dressing room, attired in tight white t-shirts that left no doubt that they were not wearing bras, grey micro skirts that barely covered their buttocks, and thigh high red socks.
The headmistress, in accordance with custom, was refereeing the match, although her knowledge of the rules was equalled only by her inability to keep up with the play.
She blew a sharp blast on her whistle for play to begin and Helen passed the ball to Jayne Sawyer.
This was Jayne’s first year in post as a newly qualified science teacher, but her sartorial standards were the talk of staff and students alike. She seemed to wear something different every day and never the same thing twice. Rumour had it that she threw everything away as soon as it was dirty. Some said this was because she couldn’t bear the thought of wearing anything that wasn’t brand new. Others said it was because she was too lazy to bother washing her clothes.
Whatever the reason, she was well liked as a teacher and skillful on the hockey field. She weaved her way deftly around girls who seemed to make little effort to stop her until she tripped over an apparently carelessly trailed stick. Propelled forward by her momentum, she landed on her face and slid through an unfortunately located patch of mud. As she staggered to her feet, she appealed for a foul, but the referee waved play on and Helen curtly told her to watch where she was going. Jayne ignored her and busied herself trying to brush the mud off her blouse, only to succeed in smearing it. So busy was she that she missed the excitement developing on the other side of the pitch.