Having just won the T20 decider against South Africa and seen Spurs nick a win at Villa Park, all is well in South Yorkshire. Arsenal are now playing in a Premier League match.
While I was walking to buy the paper this morning, I listened to the "Peter Crouch Podcast", which is fairly funny and then "Desert Island Discs" featuring the well known Ian Wright. I am not sure this Sunday's programme is available on "catch up" at the moment ( see links below), but here is the gist of Ian Wright's honest and moving story,
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1wjfH586Tzht9JnnGJRn1jy/10-things-we-learned-from-ian-wrights-desert-island-discs
The "repeat" will be available during the week or you may get it on catch up, if not now:
you will find a link here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fdxw
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000fdxw
Ian Wright has much to do with "charities", including helping the Young Offenders Prison at Portland in Dorset. His good friend Gary Lineker, had a couple of lads at my school, both keen on football, so the two professionals arranged a trip to Portland from Charterhouse.
We took a group of U18s to the prison to play against the In-mates and we managed a very fair, diplomatic, good natured 2-2 draw, on a sunny Sunday.
We were invited for tea after the game, which had been organised, made by the opposition (all in-mates) and our lads mixed with them over a cuppa. Later they took our kids on a tour to their "cells", which were small and very basic. Some of these young men had photos of family on their shelves, but there were few home comforts and we were assured by the lads that they were unlikely to "come back" to their spartan cells.
Some of their wardens were not so encouraging, a fact they let us know before we left!
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Ian Wright does much good in the community which I hope you will note in the radio programme.
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