Consequently, the most common tactic revolves around the formation of a 'phalanx'. This is taken from Bremner, Bird and Fortune. Our suspicions fell on the parents of an Indian boy but then we bumped into them while skiing in Val d’Isère.”The contest isn’t simply between candidates. Aside from the fact that there are more brown, black and Asian faces around, the boys go about in their undertakers’ uniforms of tailcoats and starched collars, as they seem to have done for centuries, learning in the old schoolrooms and depleting testosterone on the old playing fields before being locked up for the night in houses they share with 50 of their peers (each boy has his own room). A player can also score a kicked goal, worth five points, if he kicks the ball out and it hits a goal during the normal course of play. No furking, no sneaking, it’s the wall game Boris played it, so did Harry, but what does the Eton sport teach you about life?
Because of this, players usually wear long sleeves. Many players, particularly those whose position is actually against the Wall, lose the skin off their elbows, hips and knees. Children sit ashen-faced while their parents confer in whispers. Playing the game: Johnson (front row, centre) prepares to lead his team at the Eton Wall Game, 1982.
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No elite connives in its own dethroning, however, and Eton is a living illustration of the oft-forgotten truth that social mobility cuts both ways. The recently retired head of admissions, Charles Milne, was visited by a famous Russian oligarch whose son had been placed on a waiting list after failing to win a place in the entrance test. (Eton’s debating teams often sweep the board at inter-school competitions.) Eton has accomplished rowing, soccer and cricket teams, but the wall game is Eton's … Many games end 0-0.