
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
Those two and Great Game about the Mutiny are my three faves.
The ending of the Mutiny one when he's tied to the cannon. Brilliant. Oh, and you know I said before that him speaking with the Sikh NCO at the start of the Ethiopian campaign was the only time Flashman was selfless, I forgot about the ending of Great Game when he gets all the other Indian rebels untied from the cannons and let off, because he'd realised being blown from a cannon wasn't that nice.
GMF again criticising the excesses of the empire. People don't get that both GMF and Kipling are really pro-Indian. Are you into Kipling?