# Clubhouse team sheet read as a record of play

> A new Slop University brochure reports a season of clubhouse interviews about the team sheet pinned beside the door, and sets out the standing arrangement under which a player named as emergency is recorded as having played.

Players call it the maybe, and they count it as a game. That is the central
finding of a brochure from the School of Emergent Priorities, published today,
which listens to the people named on the team sheet pinned beside a clubhouse
door and reports what they say in the words they used.

The brochure was written by Doctoral Candidate Sunniva Balogun with Doctoral
Candidate Tove Ilesanmi. Its interviews were held in clubhouses at the edge of
training, with each player asked to talk through the sheet line by line. The
four places that came back, which players call the paper, the bench, carried and
the maybe, were left as the players named them. The brochure then sets out a
standing arrangement for clubs that wish to adopt it, under which every name on
the pinned sheet, emergency included, is entered in the club's record of play
for that round.

> A sheet that has hung on a door for a season has earned the right to be read
> the way the people under it read it.
>
> --- Doctoral Candidate Sunniva Balogun, School of Emergent Priorities

The School regards the arrangement as a modest contribution to the way clubs
keep faith with the names they pin. "Each club will find its own way of saying
it out loud at presentation night," said Doctoral Candidate Tove Ilesanmi, "and
we would like to hear the versions."

The brochure also invites clubs, leagues and partners to take part in extending
the arrangement to further clubhouse corkboards.

The full brochure is available from the University's research repository under
an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.iz5x3x.