Bears vs Angleterres

I'd happily have my WCCC top on to watch this!

Can't the England football team play Blues in a friendly now...

Occasionally cricket really grips me. No not occasionaly, more like once in a blue moon. For the remainder of the time it's just an exhibition sport and I don't really see the point.

Shouldn’t this thread have been called ‘County v Country’ or even ‘Counts v C……


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Cricket has me constantly gripped, I love it. A player can be down in the dumps and on the verge of being dropped from the domestic or International stage only to turn things around in a single innings. Twenty20 cricket has revolutionised the game to a new level where safe declarations will almost be a thing of the past as batsmen go for it from the get-go. Strike rates of less than .50 are getting less and less and the retirements of Warne, McGrath and Gilchrist has given every other team in the world hope of being the best now that Australia are once again beatable..

Now all the ICC need to do to make it a perfect sport is fine the teams who bowl less than fifteen overs an hour their entire match fee. That ought to do it..

Bang, quite liderally, on.

I don't care how tightly the lid is banged on it's still more of an exhibition than a competiton. It's all too neatly arranged and organised, where's the thrill of the cup draws, the trips to the countries that don't have an airport? What's the fecking point of organising a tour in India, what are they playing for, I don't get it?
It's not like anybody gains anything from winning, they don't go onto another round or anything. And what of the losers? I can just imagine them in the changing rooms ''oh well, that's another fecking match lost, where shall we go that's hot and sunny next winter?'' It's a bollox, I tell ya.

Then you get Warwicks, win four matches and it's 'hey hoe, we've won the league.' The bollocks of a local tv station, BBC Midlands nominated one of their players for Midlands sports person of the year or something. For what? Being in a team than managed to win 4 matches in a summer and spending the rest of the time getting pished in the bar while the punters are getting soaked in the rain. It's a bollox I tell ya.

Friggin Sky Sports News have got the draw for the Ashes on. Let's all sit round the tv and see who we draw this year. Feck! It's the Aussies again! What's the point, I mean in my best Basil Fawlty impression, 'what is the point?!?!?' Why do the same two teams play the same competition every other year, just because some fecker burnt a bat? I shake my head in disbelief. Cricket, it's a bollox I tell ya.

You're comparing it with other sports, Mick, when cricket is plainly incomparable. It's a law unto itself my friend, let it either take you by the hand and lead you to greener pastures or decline the proferred hand politely and shake your head in bewilderment every time the draw for the Ashes pairs off England and Australia..

Myself, I've never understood Curling. Throwing what we would call a good 'skimmer' down a frozen bowling alley only for the pitch to get invaded by blokes armed with brooms is not my idea of a sport but people around the globe love it, just love it..

Curling is only loved in countries that have only two tv channels and there’s cricket on the other side.

It’s badminton I’ve got no time for. It’s just tennis for amnesiacs isn’t it?

Badminton was invented so that childish people could say the word 'cock' in front of their parents and geta way with it.

And I should know..

Sailing round the world on your own? That's not a sport, that's someone giving a social outcast something to do for six months that is..

How do we know that sailors aren't drug cheats, nobody knows what they’re up to out there do they? Or that they're not using little outboard motors that drop offf at the ouch of a switch when approaching a harbour or checkpoint. It's plainly obvious that it's a sport for cheating loners.

Kabadi, it’s just tig for grown ups isn’t it?

The other day they showed some footage on TV of Ellen Mcarthy's last sailing round the globe, I think it's due to be shown in full over Christmas. Anyway, there she was pulling a cracker on her own amidst some tinsel in the background, and getting a bit emotional because it was Christmas and the viewers I presume are supposed to feel sorry for her spending the festivities on her lonesome?

Erm, no.

She's got a rich dad and no friends and doesn't know whether to tell her family that she's gay so she sails round the world instead? And she wants my pity, not to mention having to record The Muppets on the other side?

It ain't happening McArthy..

Kabadi is only played in India isn't it? It's called Rugby league in Yorkshire..

Aye, but int'Yorkshire version, they don't ponce abut saying Kabadi until they run out of breath. It's all "Ecky thump and avit away at the foot of our stairs" so it is and make no mistook.

Mind you, all has been put on hold this year as we enter Nora Batty Mourning Month.