QUAD FUN

Brigg Town Football Club's pre-season friendly with Scunthorpe United on Tuesday at the Hawthorns heralded the start of another football season.
Nationally, championships like Euro 2008 ensure there's hardly any break between one campaign and the next.
But football in Brigg set me thinking about school days at Brigg Grammar when a favourite pastime was Quad Football, played on a small playground long since encroached upon by the staff room and the science lab at what's now Sir John Nelthorpe School.
The BGS derivative of The Beautiful Game was fast and furious, even though the setting (one touchline was formed by the boys' toilets) was hardly on a par with Wembley.
Switching back to cricket, just a reminder that tomorrow (Friday) sees the annual match between SJN and the old boys of Brigg Grammar (alias The Briggensians). In sporting terms, some of us are getting to be very old boys, and there will be quite a few groans of pain come Saturday morning. The game is at Brigg Recreation Ground, starting at 6.30pm. Spectators, and players, will be very welcome.