During the course of our sometimes boring, monotonous working days I would walk past somebody’s bench and ask them: “Are you enjoining (sic) yourself?” or if someone made a mistake: “Why you do dat?” (sic)
They would then look at me stupid, as if I had two heads or something, so one day I thought I had better explain.
“We used to have this Australian soccer coach called Frank W at Ringwood United. A short, stocky, superfit guy of about 50 years of age. He had a shining bald head and a fanatical gleam in his eyes. At half time of a game he would always ask up: “Are you enjoining yourself?” or during the game he would jump off his coaching bench and yell “Giff him a hand on de winger!!” (sic)
If you made a mistake in a practice match on training night he would blow his whistle, stop the whole game and race up to you, his little short legs pumping and madly pointing his finger at you and ask “Why you do dat?” (sic)
Once on selection night he asked my mate Vic, who had been under a bit of a fitness cloud: ” Hey Wick, are you awallable (sic) this week?”
The last I heard of him he was coaching an aboriginal soccer team in the N.T. ………. funny man.