Transcript: ‘Straight in his ankle’

Audio transcript

Ethan Fagon:

We played in Cyprus, played a good tournament in Cyprus, that’s when I whacked a sergeant major straight in his ankle... straight in his ankle... to take him off the pitch.

I saw the ball and I saw his ankle, but his ankle a little bit more, you know, because he was losing us the game. And I whacked him. 

I played up the ball as near as I could to his ankle where I was gonna take a swing, but I wasn’t swinging at the ball, I was swinging at his damn ankle to take him out... 

And then a [?] came on, and within no time we scored a couple of goals.

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This transcript is from an interview with Ethan Fagon (NAM. 2008-11-45-1) conducted at his home in London in 2008. Ethan served with the 2nd East Anglian Regiment and then the Royal Anglian Regiment from 1961 to 1983.