Aftershock by Bernard Ashley

Author:Bernard Ashley
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781907666513
Publisher: MBI
Published: 2011-09-11T04:00:00+00:00

Denny Clarke reminded Makis of something – and on the day of the match, when he saw Clarke staring at the altered team sheet in the corridor, he realised what it was. He had seen fish looking like Clarke in his father’s nets: big staring eyes and a pouting open mouth. Clarke’s hair was always stuck close and shiny to his head as if he’d just been fished from the sea, which made him a real brother to a barboūni. As Clarke read his name on the playing team sheet, he looked like a red mullet. Paul Chambers was off with flu, so Denny Clarke wouldn’t be the travelling reserve after school today – he’d be playing.

Chapman played at right half, which meant that Clarke would be behind Makis – and as soon as playtime came, David Sutton made them practise in those positions. But Clarke annoyed Makis from the start.

‘Why don’ you drop back, Greekie,’ he kept saying. ‘so’s I can overlap you?’ All the same, he stayed too close, crowding Makis; he wanted to be where Makis was all the time. Clarke was bigger and should have fitted better into the half-back line, but he just didn’t try – and that wasn’t a good sign for the game that afternoon against Larkson Lane.

Even Mr Hersee saw it. He must have been watching from his office window, because out he came. ‘Clarke!’ he shouted. ‘Dennis Clarke!’

‘Wha’?’

‘Drop back. Keep in line with your centre-half.’

‘The Greek kid gets in my way.’

‘And you, Magritis – ‘ the man still hadn’t got hold of Makis’s name – ‘be aware of what Clarke’s trying to do.’

‘Yes, sir.’ It wasn’t worth moaning about Barboūni Boy. There’d be more space for keeping out of his way on the big pitch, wouldn’t there?

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