Published on 12/9/2005
in sport.
Oh I hope so. We are so close.
From the Sporting Life:
It is difficult to imagine a fitting climax to this special sporting contest, which has eclipsed anything seen in this country for decades.
Multiply Italia ’90 by Euro ’96 by the’93 Ryder Cup by Redgrave’s fifth gold in Sydney. Cube it and you’re not even close.
So, as much as it would be tempting for a partial Ashes correspondent to implore the heavens to open so Michael Vaughan can take the urn away on a speedboat with the other 10 players forming a pyramid on water-skies behind, we are hoping for one last exhibition of pure competition.
This is one of those days when productivity in the UK hits an all-new trough as the nation’s workers spend the day praying and anxiously eyeing a discreetly minimised browser window.
There is a clip on the P2P networks from Channel 4 cricket. I would post it, but last time I got my account suspended, so look around for it. It’s brilliant - Cricket To Mozart. Super-slow-mo-cricket; bowling, spin, batting and McGrath getting nailed.
Shandyman saw it:
Warne is poetry. More than that, he’s an entire library of poetry and I think he qualifies for the uber-league that trancends one sporting discipline and stamps greatness on sport as a whole…
Tiger Woods, Michael Jordon, Pele, Michael Schumacher… once in a generation type greatness. I could watch him bowl for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours. If he was a policeman he’d be Morse, a musician he’d be Hendrix, a statesman he’d be Churchill, and yes, if he was food he’d be eternal jam.
In years to come, us 30 somethings will be able to say we saw him at his best. We are very, very lucky.
Starts tonight remember.
There is little that is much bigger in cricket circles than an Ashes Test match at Lord’s, the home of cricket.
A day of two halves. Advantage Aussies though I’d say.
Published on 12/7/2005
in sport.
Very funny. Lions 2005 - the awards ceremony. As is this.
Very busy at the moment, so not much to see here for a while.
Published on 9/7/2005
in sport.
LONDON!!!!!!
French bird on telly said “we will be back, it was just a battle, not the whole war.”
Well, er, I think it is over dear, and if it was a war …..
Quote from a BBC reporter about Paris:
“This is a country that really needed a boost - their economy is in a mess, their politicians are unpopular, and quite frankly they’re very unhappy.”
Oh yes indeed Mr Chirac!!!! Thanks for coming!
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