At least 32 panels on the boundary wall of Cooperage football ground, opposite Campion School in Colaba have hit the sweet sport (pun intended). The wall art depicts our games of old, those with salt ’n’ pepper hair, more salt than pepper will recall playing with marbles, tyre ’n’ stick, seven tiles, hopscotch, etc. This is an eye-catching effort to keep those games alive, at least in the mind, even if not played by kids these days, who largely prefer playing with Androids to going outdoors.

Besides showcasing the games of the simpler, good ol’ days where it was gilli-danda instead of gizmos, the wall artists have interspersed the paintings with uplifting messages like, ‘Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up’ and ‘persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement’.