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‘Down and Up’ in Close of Play 16: If I was you an’ you was me, / I’d grin, an’ rummidge in my fob / Or trousis pocket for a bob, / An’ frank a down-an’-outer through / The turnstile, Guvnor, same as you, / To blow a cloud an’ take a squint / At Robins on the sprint. ‘Safety First’ in Close of Play 25: Be dead to office rule, / And, rolling roycily along / The tarmac, hum that clinking song / You learnt at Harrow School! ‘Down and Up’ in Close of Play 16: If I was you an’ you was me, / I’d grin, an’ rummidge in my fob / Or trousis pocket for a bob, / An’ frank a down-an’-outer through / The turnstile, Guvnor, same as you, / To blow a cloud an’ take a squint / At Robins on the sprint. ‘Baffled’ in Close of Play 29: You can bet your income, Jake, / The like of this has not been known since oily Aaron’s rod / Completely flummoxed Pharaoh by its appetite for snake. ‘A Veteran’ Close of Play 6: I sit / Glad-hearted on a bench and note / How Sussex vim and grit / Make red-rose Lancaster decline to hit. ‘Reflected Glory’ in Close of Play 42: We recall how Billy Farmer / Scored a chimneypot-and-six one day at Horsted Keynes, / Where Sheffield Park in person, highly tickled by the damage, / Presented half a sovereign to the Slogger for his pains. Close of Play (1986) 129: Anyhow, you’d look a bit of a fool telling Colonel Guy you wanted to go home because your old prep. school had gone to buggery .