Jock Strip is not one to brag. But luckily, this week (as
it’s the last of the term) we’ve been persuaded. But
what to brag of? Our sources tell us that last week Oxford’s
favourite student newspaper played someone else (the OxStu) at
Association Football. One team scored 7 (seven!) and the other
scored only 3 (and two of those were only because one of our
Editors is a nice person). A Cherwell source said, “Bragging
about this on our back page isn’t our style; maybe if
they’d presented a challenge we would, but they didn’t,
so we won’t”. Jock Strip just mentions it (in passing)
because we believe in journalistic integrity; all news must reach
the people and we doubt the other lot would mention it! Jock Strip would like to remind its readers of the opportunity
to take part in a Sport Relief mile on Friday 9 July. The idea of
a Sport Relief mile was in fact inspired by the legendary
achievement of Sir Roger Bannister in being the first man to
break the four-minute mile, which makes the Iffley Road event
particularly special as it is the first time the charity has
visited the venue of the achievement. The event is due to be the
biggest, and possibly the only, Sport Relief mile in Oxfordshire,
and promises to be as fun as possible – publicity for the
event says ‘the way you do it is up to you’… Two girls played for us, for f**k’s sake… and what
about that Herring hattrick? Still, at least our bragging will be
drowned out by the insane ref blowing his BLOODY whistle. The Surf Club’s single trip this term was, aptly perhaps,
described by President Matthew Patterson as “awesome.”
The plan, to take a long weekend in Cornwall to surf, sit in the
sun, drink cold beer and eat Cornish pasties, was successful.
However, getting to Cornwall had proved somewhat harder than had
been expected. An angry phone call bewildered the side as they
drove along the dual carriageway, but the cause of it was not
mere congestion. It took a few moments to realise that one of the
surfboards had flown clean off the top of the minibus, nearly
hitting the car behind, and amid much hilarity the coach had to
drive back a mile to retrieve it from the bushes. SEVEN?! They must really have been shit, we hear you think.
But then in Jock Strip’s eyes it’s the taking part that
counts.ARCHIVE: 6th week TT 2004
Jock Strip
