the football match^✦︎

Also a match, the big game of the year, Thursday’s game, football match

The annual, violent football match between Upper Bleaching and Hockley-cum-Meston.

Connections

dealings

• Tuppy Glossop competes for 1

Talked about, but not there

1. Tuppy says he is playing for Upper Bleaching to please Miss Dalgleish, and Jeeves reports the servants' view that the match is more a brawl than a game.Chapter 11, Bertie's room at Bleaching Court, as a match
2. Bertie urges Tuppy to fake a sprained ankle, but Tuppy, declaring this is true love, is all the keener to shine before his lady.Chapter 11, Tuppy's room
3. Bertie reflects on the bitter feud between the two villages and the ghoulish relish for Thursday's game.Chapter 11, as Thursday’s game
4. Bertie visits Hockley-cum-Meston and is appalled by the brawny locals talking at the Green Pig.Chapter 11, the Green Pig
5. Bertie and Jeeves draft a fake telegram from Dahlia Travers saying Angela is seriously ill and calling for Tuppy, to arrive at two-thirty mid-match.Chapter 11, Bleaching Court, as football match
6. Tuppy, crushed that Miss Dalgleish skipped the match to chase a water-spaniel, reads the telegram, forgives Angela and dashes to London in Bertie's car, and Bertie learns Jeeves made the phone call and warned Aunt Dahlia.Chapter 11, Bertie's room at Bleaching Court