about an explosion in December 1984," she told me on Monday. "It's about contamination that's happening today." Toxic sludge, she explained, was dumped in pits, on top of plastic sheets, in an attempt to cleanse it through evaporation. Instead the chemicals leached into the ground water. The pits and the sludge are still there, and the water is still used for drinking and washing by people for whom government supplies of water are unreliable. "People say they know the water tastes funny, they know it isn't doing them any good, but they don't have a choice. And absolutely nothing is being done. All Dow will say, over and over again, is that it's nothing to do with them." Now she has set up a Change.org petition to persuade Sebastian Coe and his fellow members of the organising committee to abandon their support of Dow's position. So far 8,400 people have signed up to help persuade a company that declared a profit of $2.3bn last year to face up to its moral obligations. And here is a chance for the Olympic movement, normally so proud of its humanitarian principles, to make a real difference to the lives of those who continue to suffer the consequences of a tragedy created by simple human greed. Garforth Town, it turns out, were not the only English team for which the late, great and much lamented Scrates turned out. David Harrison, a long?standing member and former chairman of Corinthian Casuals FC, called on Monday to