The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 98 The Football

With my dad being a Scot, it was always going to be football and “not that square ball game”. He had played for his RAF squadron in WW2 against what was left of the French national team at the end of the war and brought his passion for the game with him to his new life in New Zealand. He joined Hamilton Wanderers playing left wing and met some lifelong …