Posted by Alan on 6/15/2002, 7:20 am

Newspaper reports can never give detailed accounts of fights but the scenarios on which they report are fascinating. I have collected a few of these reports and remember many more. One that sticks in my mind was reported in 1979, the event taking place in Canning Town, in Eastend of London. England. In the local school a 13 year old girl had been victimised because she had a different accent. She was derisorily known as "Little Miss Posh". One girl in particular was single out as the ring leader of the other girls who were making Little Miss Posh's life a misery. To try and resolve the issue Miss Posh and the ring leader and their respective mothers had been called to a mediation meeting with the deputy headmistress. The Deputy head had testified that the meeting in her office did not go to plan. Rather than foster friendship between their daughters both women rose from their seats and started shouting insults at each other. At the height of the argument the mother of Miss Posh had cross the room to within two feet of the other mother and challenged her to a fight. With their daughters shouting encouragement both ladies began clawing at each other faces. Earings and necklaces were pulled off in the initial stages of what turned out to be a tremendous fight. Not much detail but a real event to trigger the imagination. Alan