conkers

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. I used to play in an under 10s football squad once upon a time. I was pretty good, but I was easily distracted. I distinctly remember, during one important match against a rival town’s squad, my football coach (whose name was Graham, funnily enough) shouting at me to focus on the game and stop picking up conkers on the side of the pitch. But I was fixated on a far more glorious sport. The most extreme sport of all, according to…