Football: Exclusive insight into "Educating for Peace: 100 Years of Ecolint"

The football pitch in La Grande Boissière, surrounded by an idyllic wood, was in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries an ornamental lake, complete with a small boathouse. Although it was later drained and employed as a sports field, its surface was always bedevilled by underlying humidity. Generations of Ecolintians will remember playing in persistently muddy conditions, though perhaps rarely as dire as in this photograph (circa 1970), during a match against a visiting school, when the pitch resembled a freshly ploughed field. (The Greek Theatre is visible in the background, on the left.)