As we relaxed, recently, in a local pub, the Under 14's Maria Alm football team arrived, in high spirits, to celebrate their recent win. Their trainer, perhaps knowing no other means of celebrating, ordered a round of schnapps, which the proprietor served, obligingly and unquestioningly. Or, so we thought. They were in fact drinking Sprite - just training. They then switched to their pints of coke and practised noisy, incomprehensible football chants and grunting noises. In the other corner of the bar was a group of local lads, who may well have been doing the same half a century ago - just training, and, it appears, are now topping the league tables in the sport of heavy drinking. That didn't seem to anyone to be something to celebrate.
