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St. Gilbert's is a scholarship Sports Academy for young men 18-22 years from deprived backgrounds around the UK, providing excellence in coaching and tutorship in both Team Sports and Athletics, with the special goal of creating professional Sportsmen of all our graduates.
Established: 1908 Principal: R. Stevens
Part 1: Dinky's Diary
Sunday 5th Sept 2021
Me Mam gave me this book. Said,
"Keep a diary Duck, you'll be glad in years to come when you can look back on the best days of your life."
My first night at St. Gilbert's, in the dorm I'll be sharing the next four years. Room 202. Got a top bunk mind, dead chuffed about that. This place is like Hogwarts or something, right grand.
The lads seem like a right laugh. Six to a dorm, so we're packed in pretty tight. There's Duncan, Kieron, Andy, Sean, Sam and me. We'll get to know each other well enough after four years in this place.
I keep thinking the last thing me Mam said as I climbed on the coach with me bags, "Stay away from poofters!"
Hilarious. Don't think she needs to worry tho, seem regular boys this lot.
Night, night.
Monday 6th Sept 2021
Weird day. Not sure how I feel about it to be honest, but the other lads seemed on board, so went along with it.
Inductions the morning. Gave us all School Ledgers. Chocked full of rules they are - can't do this, can't do that. They did say it would be strict.
Anyway things got properly strange after lunch. The Prefects (older Lads, all condescending posh boys) made us pack all our clothes and bring them downstairs. We have to turn them over, underwear and all. Even the clothes we were standing in. Had to strip on the spot and stand naked in the hall waiting to receive our new uniforms.
The Prefect overseeing our dorm (Conner Denbury his name is, and a right smug prick) took a good look at all our dicks. There's the poofters me Mam warned me about. I know I shouldn't bother about it at my age, but I didn't want Conner to see my little willy. I just knew he'd try to make fun of me somehow. He chose his moment.
"We're getting that stuff back, right?" I grumbled as he flung our kit on an overloaded hotel trolly.
"Shut up dinky!" he scoffed, "It's School uniform 24/7 at Gilbert's."
Me new mates all burst out laughing, pointing at my bean. I've always been bullied about my tiny penis. Was daft to think it would be any different here.
"Mate, I'm 8 inches," I snapped back, "That's just how much my dick shrank when I caught sight of you!"
"O, burn!" The lads jeered.
"You should worry less about me little dicklet and more about the walloping great Shlong on your forehead," I added, scoring more applause.
I was on a roll,
"They don't call me big Lads, but they do always call me back."
"Yes, dinky!" they roared.
Felt like the first Man of the Match. Get the feeling that nickname's going to stick tho.
"Congratulations, you've just earned your first disciplinary," Connor smirked icily, "We teach respect at Gilbert's, and Prefects are your superiors. Be outside the Prefect's common room at 17:00 today."
Looking back, it's not the best introduction I could made. Kept me waiting in the hallway 40 minutes before deigning to deal with me. Point made, Dickhead.
When he did show, he came through the door with a pingpong racket. And like a bitch I spread me hands on the opposite wall and let him larrup me ass! Old fashioned teaching comes with old fashioned penalties I guess. We signed up for it.
I grit me teeth through the sting. If I'm honest a part of me liked it. This is the kind of discipline I've been lacking these years. That's why we came here. I can tell this place is going to make a Man of me. Even got a cheeky bofty thinking how Gilbert's is gonna spank me into shape.
I thanked Conner and slunk back up to me dorm. Turns out we share uniforms with everyone in our dorm. Shirts and school ties, even our standard issue trunks, all thrown together in the wash and divvied out willy nilly the other side. Feels dead wrong, cosseting my balls where five other lads have been sweating. Socks and all! Don't think I want to share me Salfords.
Most of all I'm fucking fuming they took me clothes. I just know we're not going to see that stuff again, and I really fucking liked me togs. G-Star Raw, Calvin's and Nike's. Wasn't cheap that kit.
And how the fuck did Kieron get away with keeping his pink cap!? He never took it off. Exactly the same pink as his little bellend. I swear Conner was just about to confiscate it when I got gobby and distracted him. He's still wearing it now, looks right chuffed with himself.
Tuesday 7th Sept 2021
Woke with a better attitude today. Ready to take this on.
Got a great speech from Principal Stevens this morning, made me feel right proud to stand with all the new Lads in our uniforms - all dressed smart, kecks and blazers with coat of arms, and school ties with the fattest knot possible. Looking mint.
Told us the whole story. Gilbert's used to be an elite prep school. They still take a few posh boys each year to make Prefects, but when Gym Coach Ross Stevens took over he transformed it into the famous Sports College it is today. The he persuaded the Government to back a big initiative to give boys from deprived backgrounds a fighting chance.
That's why me Mam sent me. I couldn't believe it when the letter fell on the doormat. Just didn't think a Manc scally like me would get a second look!
This scholarship a last chance for most of us here. We all dropped out of school, no GCSE's - failed to make it in the world of work, 18 years old with no qualifications or prospects.
But here we are - boys from Northampton, Plymouth, Hull. Enough lads from London mind. Come to prove that we can make something of ourselves after all.