No one wants to talk about the cricket then???

2 sports in the whole world I hate, they are on every year about this time and only serve to make me long for the start of the footie season all the more. Tennis and cricket - rubbish.

So footie SOCCER can be played for 90 minutes then we have
a nil nil draw??? BORING TO ME

Yeah but at the most (usually) if it's crap footy is over after 90 mins. Cricket drags on and on and on.........each to their own though.

Would you enjoy it as much if you had the crap english weather to endure as well Boo? I always feel it would be more enjoyable down under to watch it in that climate.

Yes i suppose you have a point. So i hope ur an Everton supporter then!!!

Wash your mouth out young man! Manchester United through and through!

Who,s Manchester utd???

I'm watching you Boo!

Well Someone has tooo!!!

I gather from the news that it's not going the Aussie's way Boo? You think your boys can turn this around and give us our usual tanning?

It sounds to me llike ur taking an intrest in this rubbish!!!
And England have won at Something!!!
Isn,t Cricket exciting!!!

I wouldnt go as far as to say an interest but it's all over the radio when we beat anybody at anything - such a rare event that when it happens it's rammed down our throats.

Winners are Grinners!!!

Well done England .....wasn,t it a hoot!

Ah, all sports have their attractions. Aside from squash. Squash bothers me.

Football players also have a great sideline in interpretative dance going as well. Should a gnat bump into them they do a first-rate impression of somebody having their legs blown off by a landmine.

Picture Fergie whispering in the winker's ear before he runs onto the pitch: 'Break a leg, dahhhling!'

'Boss, what is my inspiration? I'm a method man, you know.'

'Imagine yourself going over the top in on the Somme. German machinegun blows your pelvis to bits.'

'Roll around a bit?'

'Like a dolphin rolls at SeaWorld my lad!'

Of course, now we know Ronaldo's principal inspiration is lots of lots of shiny cars, skip loads of mulah, and those tanned groupies with legs that go all the way up to their arses. Maybe adulation too. Methinks he should be concentrating on not ending up like the other Ronaldo - fat and embarassed.

So that's football pretty much covered.

Whereas, Freddy Flintoff, seven feet tall, smashes the tourists with his golden fists. Single handed. On one leg, and probably with a stinking hangover. A feat worthy of Hemmingway. Rambo. That guy out of 300.

In the county game you see batsman being trollied onto the wicket because they can barely walk. Shins shattered by a gentle warmup game of kabaddi. Arm hanging off by a thread. And then they have to protect their sticks with nothing but a plank of wood and a plastic hat while elongated olympic sprinters launch cannonballs at them at ninety miles an hour. Men's men. Sport of kings.

A few observations:

We should never ever play any more tests in Leeds. Bad voodoo man.

The Barmy Army should be issued with large corks to insert into their equally large gobs on entering Edgbaston. The way Ponting got treated was just weird, and he handled the abuse like a gent. A real professional there. He seems like a reasonable guy, spoke sense, moaned quite a lot but I guess he was trying to blend in with the local population and whinge like a born Pom. Beside's, his inspired rejection of spin at the Oval basically gifted us the Urn. The replica of the Urn, sorry. They are the ashes of our bails after all. I suspect that should they be removed from the country, some kind of spell would be broken and the oceans would swallow up our island, leaving no trace but a vast floating mat of Metro newspapers and menus for Pizza delivery services.

In general the demonisation of the Australian team - especially by the tabloid press - was embarassing. When Shane Warne was playing, then it was utterly justified. That man is the devil incarnate. The way he turned up on Sky's commentary team was infuriating.

Johnson's sledging was flimsy. Sledging quality was poor. What little there was of it. Next Ashes series, the Greencaps should be forced to play Merve Hughes purely for the purpose of bullying the English tail. Then we'd see what the young chaps are made of. It'd temper them, toughen them up. Hughes at a full head of steam was a sight to behold. Children, cover your ears.

I miss Trescothic, or however you're supposed to spell his flippin name. He was handy against the Aussies before he had his troubles. We should move the next Headingly test to his back garden. Good voodoo.

All in all, well done Straussy, poor show Cook, Bopara needs to go down the order if he ever gets back in, thank god Shah wasn't there, hands cramping up and looking persistently startled, like a deer crossing a motorway. RIP Flintoff's knee, we'll always have Lords, and that run out. Collingwood needs to lock himself in a dark room and have a long word with himself. Well played at Cardiff, good fielding, but sort out the bat mate. Prior - good keeper, bucanneering batting. Onions - shave. You might be on with the Allen girl. And wash your hair! Dont look down her top. Anderson, Broad, Swann - fine fine fine, keep it up. Monty - chin up, dont give in. Grrr! Live to win. Eye of the tiger geezer, eye of the tiger! Erm, and the rest, whoever they were, well done with whatever it was I forgot you doing... Harmison! Bad luck on the contract boyo. Never fear, you can always manage Newcastle Utd. Payment is a lifetime supply of Brown Ale, and who knows? The ownership of the club perhaps. Ashley is a desperate man. Full service history, good interior, only a couple of careful managers. And about a thousand ones who didnt look after it at all. Unlikely to be twocked by a yoof or owt, as St. James' Park was not designed or manufactured by the Ford Motor Company...

...cricket! Sorry, Cricket! I do like to waffle off on tangents.

We won through sheer bloodymindedness. That kind of backbone seems a rare quality in an English sporting team, unless it's female. They're actually a lot more fun to watch as well.

Saying that, we were three nil down in this infinite ODI series, and I have no idea how today's is going/has gone. Ponting lost the toss again though, that was funny. A true friend of England, he's the dingo's dangleberries (with apologies to Talksport).

Off to see a man about a dog now - little birdies tell me a young gentleman is trying to offload a 60 thousand seat football stadium in the Tack & Spiggot carpark. They say he's throwing in a full squad of players to go with in. No logs though, that's a worry. I understand he's been asking for a pack of fags in exchange, but strangely nobody seems to want to take it off his hands. I might, I think there's a second-tier league lying around in my shed it would fit like a glove.

Out.

Oh yeah, how could I forget. Spoke to Jason Gillespie during the Birmingham test. He closed the short chat by saying 'no worries mate.'

Kill me now, I've experienced all life has to give. Just joyous.

Now I'm out.

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3 CHEERS FOR ENGLAND,,,WELL DONE.

They is very quiet over here....................eating some Humble pie :}

i love cricket and ashes for me is something and wants england to continue wining ashes. That will keep brit calm and happy.