The trip with the football team is a tradition and a rite of passage: the first trip where they stay at motels rather than being billeted, someone’s going to lose his virginity, everyone’s expected to get drunk… On this trip The Sandman makes a significant discovery – which he can’t disclose, because then it won’t be his secret anymore. Sandy is a natural bus clown- not the leader of the group, but the one who entertains the others and performs his funny noises if the cool players at the back of the bus get bored, such as the Pterodactyl, the Lip Trumpet, Compressed Air Walking…. This will resonate with blokes who grew up in Australia – specifically Newcastle – in the early to mid seventies.  Politically incorrect cover art by Michael Bell, The Sandman, Archibald Prize finalist 2000.