"It seems a rotten time to bring this matter up just when we are going on to the ground, but I never really thought much about it till that little lady put it to me as I told you.

And, fellows, I have felt as if it were really up to me to put it before you.

They have lost their goal man, Coleman--there's no better in the League--and because of this infernal rule they decline to put on a cracking good player.

They are playing the game on honour, and they are expecting us to do the same, and as that English chap says, they expect us to be gentlemen.

I apologise to you all, and if you say go on as we are, I will go on because I feel I ought to have kicked before.