he was doing the commentary on the darts last night for some unknown reason. It was ****ing dire. What a prick
When he put his mind to it he was a great cricketer. However, he never looked after himself properly so all too often played like a corpse. He was also an absolute bollocks as a captain and he does come across as an arrogant self obsessed cock end.
He lit up that 2005 ashes series. What a summer of sport that was. "doink." "Noooiiice baaawwhlling Waaarnaah!" Freddie skittling em out then coming back to knock em all over the field.
I got into cricket around 1992, was supposed to be revising, turned on the telly and got hooked, England v Australia ODI, Robin Smith got 150 odd, we still lost... 2005 was the first time in 13 years of watching the game that we beat Oz and so many games were so close: could easily have been 3-1 to them. To put it into perspective, for the Scots: imagine qualifying for the finals of a major football tournament or, for the Irish: imagine qualifying for the finals of a major football tournament without UEFA taking pity on you and sending off two opposition players in a play-off. You'd be quite chuffed I'm sure. Warne was and is a legend and that's another part of cricket: the absolute respect and admiration for the greats of the game. No one shouts "you're ****", instead they'd wind him up by doing comedy appeals after each ball bowled. He would not rage, he would laugh it off.
Who is that in Mike's picture, one of the Hollioake brothers? Edit: Filip Sebo, some Old Firm shoite that I wouldn't get. He does look very much like a player who used to play for South Africa. Can't think who but he is the spit.
