Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
Author: Tony Hawks
It doesn’t take much – “100 is usually sufficient” – to persuade Tony Hawks to take off on notoriously bizarre and hilarious adventures in response to a bet.And so it is, that one afternoon in Balham, a pointless argument with a friend concludes in a bet – that Tony can’t beat all eleven members of the Moldovan soccer team at tennis.As natural sportsmen, Tony’s friend argu….Read More
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