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Plummer's Angels
| At Oxford University, where he is a fellow of Balliol College,
Dr Plummer (pictured left and bottom right on bench)
has recruited and crafted many of
today's top croquet players. Stars of the Plummer stable include S Patel (reputedly hung like a horse but trots around the lawn like a filly),
C Farthing, Miss Williams
- all UK top ten ranked players, and John Repp - UK ranking 253. To say the good Doctor has taught them everything they know is a gross
understatement. Watching these bright angels, one can almost see Dr Plummer inside them - pulling the strings, pointing out lifts -
with every shot they play. Like wind-up soldiers or a laboratory mouse, they scurry around the maze of hoops with graceless determination,
as if a big lump of cheese were nailed to the centre peg.
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