Michael always enjoyed playing football and cricket but had never played with girls before as they weren’t ‘girls’ games. He was taken aback that some of the girls were far better than some of the boys. He was equally surprised how much he enjoyed playing netball too, traditionally being a ‘girls’ game.
He discovered that hockey was a particularly vicious sport and throughout the winter hockey season, his shins bore the evidence of playing the brutal game in spite of wearing shin pads. Rugby was another of the winter sports, equally brutal but without the weaponry of hockey.