Are you a proper teacher, sir? - Gary Boothroyd

Gary Boothroyd spent 27 years as a PE teacher at Holte Comprehensive in inner-city Birmingham. He tells his story with a series of extremely funny anecdotes about persuading reluctant pupils to participate in PE. From the boy who did not want to go swimming because his family were on a private fast and he wasn't allowed to swallow water, to another who wrote his own note Mumbasser has a leg'. But it was not all fun and games. Gary had to cradle a dying child, stabbed to death outside the school gates and deal with racist thugs.'