Right trainer, white, on the bench. Third canal shoe of the year and the second white trainer, though the other were a left, over at Slaithwaite, so no connection — and I wouldn't have drawn one anyway. That's not what I do.
The photograph didn't come out. There's a bench along that stretch and I'd say it were that one, but "the bench" is all I wrote, so "the bench" is all I can stand behind. Sixteen years on, which trainers I remember and which I don't seems fairly random. This one I don't.
Written up August 2026, from the notebook.