'Girls ball games'?  I never said that.  He was DCFC.

For some peculiar reason, another word we have in England for football was auto-corrected; leading to much head scratching on my part.  Onward and upward (as someone once said).  Tworussellstreet understands - thus feeds - my addiction for these anecdotes about the old JS days. 
Royals were once discussed In Another Place along the lines of: could they be worn by anyone who attained to respectability or were they forever tainted/stigmatised by past associations?  Once again, 'skinhead' was dredged up from the murky depths.  I don't recall any 'sussed skinheads' from my late childhood, only horrible types in big boots and grubby sheepskin coats, all chewing gum and smoking 'numbos' (Number Six, for the non-smokers, a vile cigarette of yesteryear, much favoured by the working classes of my home town).  All I can think/hope is :  London must have been very different.  Having said that I once sold a pair of Cheaney to some London 'geezer' on Ebay and he wasn't the type I'd like to visit Rome with...

I still have a pair of Walkover 'American Brogues' ( that's what we called them) that I bought from JS Covent garden shop in the 1980s. They've lasted because I only wear them a few times a year and I've looked after them.