03 December 2015, The Tablet

Holy Hammers blowing bubbles


 
Sisters Patricia and Immaculata enjoy West Ham match days when thousands of supporters troop past their terraced house opposite the Boleyn Ground at Upton Park, east London. Last month, Sr Patricia even launched into a favourite song from the terraces, “I’m forever blowing bubbles”, during a BBC Radio 4 programme, Lives in a Landscape, about the club’s move next summer to the former Olympic Stadium at Stratford. The sisters, both consecrated virgins, arrange exposition o
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