142 There's Someone Up There

Warning! This is our territory. Trespassing will be considered an illegal invasion. Please withdraw immediately. Otherwise, it will be regarded as a provocation, and I will break you!

I repeat! This is our territory. Trespassing will be considered an illegal invasion. Please withdraw immediately. Otherwise, it will be regarded as a provocation, and I will break you in three seconds!

One!

Two!

Three!

Boom!

There was a muffled thud, and beads of sweat sprayed everywhere. Cut grass scattered.

The Reading player, who was wearing a horizontally striped white and blue jersey, was pathetically hurled sideways. And George Wood stood at the point of the collision, with the football he had just seized lying still beneath his foot.

"Foul—" The Reading fans could not finish speaking before they were drowned out by louder cheers.

"Well done; beautiful!" The Forest fans all stood up and shouted.