Yeah, the "cricket's never been big in England" stuff was great. Why are you mongs, who are niether English, Austrailian or have any interest in the game posting in here anyway? Surely you must be able to find a Drogba > Henry thread to post your bollocks in.
Are you? Then you fall into the "no interest in cricket" catagory, either way, why bother posting here? And the BBC/ ITV were showing live football every Sunday afternoon prior to Sky, you bellend. Anyway, I was refering to that "leg breaker" moron rather than you. Happy New Year.
Yeah, but football over-saturation was nothing like the level we've got with Sky Sports now. In fact, if you compare Premiership schedules and "old First Division" schedules, there are too many "made for TV" changes in the new league. There are a lot more weeknight matches now than in old days. These days, every night your turn the telly on there is something or other football going on. Even things like league cup matches, reserve matches, U-19 European qualifiers, these get TV coverage. I don't think the old Milk Cup (or whatever it was) got much TV coverage. Now, it's just football, football, nonstop football. Cricket, rugby seem almost like minority sports on TV. I've got a theory that either leg_breaker is a non-Englishman living in England, or not living in England at all, or too young to have any perspective about cricket's relevance to English sport. A statement like "cricket has always been a minority sport" coupled with some other HDTV related comments, I've strung together my theory. Anyway, not that it's all that important. I just found it amusing when he said he didn't know cricket was "that" popular in Australia. It reminded me of all those HDTV conversations. I'll let him be now.
I have an interest in cricket, hence why I posted here. I just don't have a great knowledge of it. As in i could name all the players in a few teams, yet would struggle to name replacements.
Yes. You've said nothing, and provided absolutely no facts, observations or numbers to dispel my proclamation that football has always been bigger in England than cricket. That giant paragraph is a giant non-sequiter. Completely irrelevant. Go and look at football crowds in the 30s, or even the 50s, in both eras many clubs set attendance records that they haven't come close to reaching since. Look at the hundreds of thousands of people packed into Wembley in the 20s. An estimated 200,000 people were there to watch the 1923 cup final, when has a county cricket match ever seen that many people? In the 60s, George Best was a bigger celebrity than any cricket player. It is an illusion that cricket has ever been a big sport in England. It just seems that way because it's favoured by the posh upper classes who have historically controlled the media. And you seem to be completely unaware of the history of English football and cricket.
I see the Fat Lady's already started tuning up her voice, for a fifth performance (perhaps tomorrow).
the fat lady has been singing non stop since adelaide. This tour is a major letdown . Worst i've seen since we got swept in India in the early 90s. Freddy shouldnt captain another test .Just let him concentrate on being an all rounder .
What a waste of time. I think instead of all these boring long matches they should decide it on a single one-day match, then we wouldn't have to listen to it being dragged out for months. And play it during the day at the weekend when people can watch it. Who watches a cricket match in the middle of Thursday night? Madness. Just heard that the next series isn't until 2009, that's almost three years, yet this one was barely a year after the other one.
Flintoff spent too much time kissing a$$ in the media saying how mighty australia are . He has to step down as captain .He doesnt have the feel for captaincy. get strauss or vaughan back into the role.
he might never come back from injury .if he does come back he would have to be reappointed . after this shambolic series it seems likely he will be back.
Yeah but in all fairness to him there's not much else you can say when you've been done 5-0 Personally I've never had a love affair with Lancastrians, apart from Paul Carrack (probably one of the great rock vocalists of all time), but like most Australians I love the big fella and hope one day he takes out dual citizenship. Would look great in the new dark green and gold.
I love him as a player but as captain he wasnt up to the hard task. you cant bog him down with a triple workload. ian botham wasnt a good captain either.
Ahem, can I say that that was a bit too, ahem..... embarrassing, even the word cheesy doesn't do it any justice. http://in.rediff.com/movies/2006/nov/17look.htm http://strange-worlds.blogspot.com/2006/12/brett-lee-to-sing-with-asha-bhosle.html
