Summary
ONE evening in the scorching summer of 1976 - the year of a serious long drought which many readers will recall - two boys, Tony and John - both aged twelve - from Anfield's Hanwell Street, bumped into four members of a local gang of similarly aged children, and these bored kids decided to play trance tick - a new version of the game tick in which the person who is elected to be "it" is supposedly put into a trance and ordered to chase and batter those that he spots.
A tall and thickset 13-year-old boy nicknamed Oggy for reasons unknown, was chosen to be it, and was told to lean with his face to the wall.See the full content of this document
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Game of Tick Turns to Terror ; Tales From the Past
He leaned against the brick wall, resting his forehead on his forearm, with his eyes squeezed tight, as John drew an imaginary square on Ogg...
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