RamsTrust member Malcolm Turner reflects upon his renewed optimism.

My lad, brimming full of teenage optimism, went sea fishing for the first time this summer. Braving the English Channel he quickly boated a fighting smooth-hound.

Steve Bloomer’s legend is rightly celebrated in his Black Country birthplace, especially at the Cradley ‘Then & Now’ heritage group’s ‘Cradley Day’, the town’s festival of industrial and social history held every two years.

RamsTrust’s Bloomer display at Cradley Day 2010 attracted much interest. To acknowledge Cradley’s donation towards Bloomer’s pitch-side tribute at Derby, we presented a poetic tribute to “The Destroying Angel”, now reproduced here.