Commentary
I belong to a very small minority: the awful truth is that I’m not a big fan of team sports. All codes of football expect their players to show great personal and physical courage on the field, but moral conviction tends to get overlooked in the job description.
I’m unhappy about that. In my 30 years as a college head in Australia, the worst case of homesickness I ever came across was that of a big bruiser of a rugby player who wept inconsolably on his first night away from home and was an emotional mess for several days afterwards….