Not the end of March yet, but already too many "greats" have passed away in 2016. Cryuff was a real superstar.
Another good article. Always been one of my favourite players, good to him back to what he always was, a very good player! http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...g-hero-at-the-heart-of-tottenhams-title-chase
Brilliant match against Sri Lanker. Wouldn't have won that if Matthews could run but excellent bowling from Jordan gave Stoke enough leeway to see it through. What a catch from Root too. @littleDinosaurLuke join in so I'm not talking to myself
Yeah, it was a good game and far closer than it should have been. Wickets are always crucial. A dot ball (obvs), usually followed by a couple more as the new batsman finds his feet, with a resulting shift in momentum. Sri Lanka lost 2 wickets and scored 6 runs from the last 10 balls of their innings. They lost by 10 runs.
It's on YouTube if you're outside the UK. On Channel 5 Catch Up if you're in the UK. (why media companies? WHY? Apart from making it harder to find, what good has it done?) Eubank is awesome. Hope he goes all the way to a world title.
Kohli was brilliant in that run chase. India scored their last 39 runs in 2.1 overs to make it look easy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35908492 So tragic, in the prime of his career as well. Cancer is such a c*nt.
Excellent performance. New Zealand gifted us a few soft wickets but still, an excellent chase. Jordan did another terrific job with the ball and Stokes finally turned up! No such luck for Morgan, another feeble dismissal but I'm sure he's just saving it for the final...
The batsmen knocked off the runs easily, but the bowlers set it up for once. New Zealand only scored 20 off their last 4 overs, making their total 20-25 runs light (at least). Kolkata will be a different test. Let's hope England bat second and are chasing.
Jermain Defoe says, "I want Sunderland to be safe and Spurs to win the league". Top Man. "You're Spurs and you know you are".
Steel A very bad situation. Thousands of jobs sacrificed on the alter of "the markets know best". Don't get me wrong I'm not anti-capitalist, I am very much in favour of business (particularly small business). I am most certainly against the dogmatic ideas of neo-liberal capitalists who seem to think that deregulated markets are the answer to everything without a shred of evidence that it has ever worked. This means that the Chinese can dump as much below-cost-of-production steel on the world as they like and the government simply rolls over and takes it in the name of competition. But to me competition is not fair if one government absorbs the cost of below cost production and the other thinks that's how it has to be. And apparently the EU has restrictions in protecting an industry, even against this sort of unfair "competition", which confirms my suspicions (as also evidenced by the treatment of the Greek financial crisis) that neo-liberals run the EU which makes it a good argument to leave. So what happens when the British steel industry is destroyed? Will the Chinese always be so generous when they don't have any competition (obviously I realise that we didn't directly compete with the Chinese on the world market but hopefully you get what I mean)? The neo-liberals will have you believe that modern democratic capitalist countries developed historically on this neo-liberal model but nothing could be further from the truth. Protectionism and not free trade has always been a feature. Just read Ha-Joon Chang's book "23 things they don't tell you about Capitalism" (among others) to get an insight into the ridiculousness of the "accepted" path of modern economics. So good luck to the thousands about to lose their jobs, and goodbye to a strategic industry.
