The locals – experts the lot of them – were packing anoraks, hats, and brollies on Thursday morning, a bad sign for all those out-of-towners who had been foolish enough to trust the weather forecast.
“It’s looking a bit black over Bill’s mother’s,” one of them said to another on the short walk up from Burley Park station. It was, too, if you only knew which way Bill’s mother’s was. Somewhere beyond the Western Terrace, you guess, where the horizon was beginning to turn blurry, as though Jack Russell, who was here working on a picture of the grand new stand, had just smudged the paint with his finger. “Good toss to lose, I reckon.”
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