wrencat1873 wrote:
I was at Snapethorpe in the mid 70's and a good pal of mine was Kevin Bell (brother of the Trinity legend Nigel, who was in the year above), I could never get in the school side, although I was a midget back then.
However, our PE teacher was a Mr Mallard, who was just like the PR teacher in "Kes", we used to miss half of our dinner hour if his side were losing - hilarious looking back but, not at the time.
I was there at the same time - and remember Mr Mallard very well; he was a right vindictive ar5ehole. Mr Hattersley was the Head iirc - who was very handy with the cane; standing on the spot outside his office marked you as a dead man walking.
I can remember so many teachers using violence back then - that the ones who didn't stood out as being amazing; first among them, David Rappaport, who went on to find fame in The Young Ones, Time Bandits and LA Law - sadly, he took his own life just as his star was rising.