The Missing Sock
Forty players, one kit manager and one sock missing ninety minutes before kick-off.
Panel 1. 90 minutes to kick-off.
- Kit Manager: Forty-six years. I have never lost a sock.
- Team Manager: Lock the doors. Nobody leaves.
Panel 2. - Team Manager: Bags open. Boots off. This is not a drill.
Panel 3. - Kit Manager: Three socks. On one foot.
- Bomb Squad prop: Depth.
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Panel 1
In a changing room lined with neatly hung jerseys, the Kit Manager holds up one green sock in horror while the Team Manager presses her headset.
Caption: 90 minutes to kick-off.
Kit Manager: Forty-six years. I have never lost a sock.
Team Manager: Lock the doors. Nobody leaves.
Panel 2
A full search: the Physio shines a torch under the benches, the Team Manager checks her clipboard and players stand in a line holding their kit bags open.
Team Manager: Bags open. Boots off. This is not a drill.
Panel 3
The bald Bomb Squad prop sits calmly on the changing-room bench among his teammates, one foot bundled in socks, while the Kit Manager stares at him.
Kit Manager: Three socks. On one foot.
Bomb Squad prop: Depth.
