Q. My son is a member of a rugby team at his university. They are a lovely bunch of chaps during daylight hours but some sort of group hysteria seems to take hold during post-match victory celebrations and they behave more like cavemen than gentlemen. They obviously need the civilising influence of female company in the form of girlfriends — but how to find them? Although there are many suitable single girls in our circle, the four we took to a recent game in the hope of doing a spot of match-making were put off by the beer-fuelled boorishness in the pub afterwards. What do you suggest, Mary?
V.H.R., Devizes, Wiltshire
A. Just because the team members enjoy these occasional Jekyll-and-Hyde evenings as part of their ritual for bonding, it does not reduce their overall eligibility. Society’s new form of match-making, as spearheaded by Lady Meyer in a forthcoming fund-raising event for PACT (Parents of Abducted Children Trust, 13 September) consists of arranging speed-dating evenings in aid of charity.
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