[LaLaLand]

I agree to a certain extent about PE teachers, we had 3 different ones and the 2 were hateful, really vile and they'd only been teaching a few years.

The horrible ones were gym and rugby, I loathed gym. Still makes me feel nervous thinking about it now actually, the horse and the wall bars. Being quite a big guy and a bit "awkward" as most are back then I just used to hate it, I used to try and get days off or "forget" my kit. When you think back you try and think "oh it was just me being stupid" but it really was horrendous!

The other guy though had been there for 20-odd years and he was the soundest bloke ever. He didn't believe that PE should be a planned out "this is what we're going to do today" thing. He basically used to say "If you want to do badminton, get the nets out and play, if you want to play tennis, go up to the courts, if you want to play footie go to the field". As long as you were doing some sort of activity he was happy and people respected him a lot more than the other two, I guess it was a two way thing. I used to love PE with him, the others... no.