No 9 has escaped from a pile of rejected Christmas cracker jokes. Feeble.

Ah, ok then.

Anyone got the the phone number for Dramatic Downweighters Anonymous?

(picks up toys and patiently replaces them in pram)

Please read carefully. I said he has been very good. His fellow batsmen have not approached his high standard. It’s not a searingly original observation.

Even if I wasn’t a Surrey fan, I’d have sympathy with Jason Roy. He is a hugely talented batsman in the modern, fashionable manner of attacking hard from the off. This makes him ideal to open in one day matches, […]

Bradman? The bodyline plan was primarily intended by Jardine to nullify him alone.

Smith has been very good so far in this series, but only in comparison to his colleagues who have been collectively a bit average.

Starc, if fully fit, must surely be a racing certainty to start, especially if the pitch is as pace friendly as suggested.

It isn’t really “legitimate” to repeatedly bowl short with a view to hit a batsman’s head. A bowler doing that would be told to stop by the umpires, and his captain told to remove him from the attack if he […]

Actually I don’t recall many tents at Woodstock, based on my memories of the aerial footage which I haven’t seen for years. Were tents at festivals even a thing then?

My eldest brother was at the Isle of Wight […]

For me, it’s Santana that leave me cold; as dull as ditch water and I’ve never understood their enduring popularity.

Carlos is a technically talented musician in the same way that Whitney Huston was a […]

Regarding Elt’s singing voice, hindsight has not been at all kind to him; that cod American lilt he was always prone to sounded increasingly weird and forced to British ears by the 80s. Yes, his own hubris undid […]

Impossible to hear this on a sunny day without feeling better about life in general.

I live only about 6 miles away. I think part of it is Brighton’s famously tolerant and laid-back vibe attracting people who just need a bit of help, and in the summer months there are many worse places in the UK […]

Duly signed up for my first season. As a fan of a lower league team, my knowledge of the Prem stems almost entirely from MOTD, so not expecting any miracles. If we were dealing in League 1’s promising youngsters […]

Harsh. But I’m rewatching the video to try and spot Una Stubbs and Melvyn Hayes.

Lin Cook became notoriously protective of Peter Cook’s legacy after his death. Victor Lewis-Smith befriended her just before she herself died in 2016 and she allowed him access to Peter’s old house in Perrins […]

No-one will convince me this tune isn’t a great deal of fun.

Looks wise, there are some of us who think Nick was punching well above his weight when it came to Carlene.

Wot? No beret?

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