…my daughter-in-law has a proper fear of them but I don’t mind them. I’m of a mind that they kill bugs like houseflies etc, would never kill a spider, tend to catch them and put back outside.
I played 5-a-side every week in the mid 1980s not far from there, in the Rock Centre Church Hall on Whitefield Road. Probably fitter now, and slimmer, than I was then. I blame the ale.