This was the song being belted out by the English cricket fans at Cardiff over the weekend. I have to get in on this. I have tasked MKM to find tickets ASAP. We have tickets for the Saturday at Lords but regrettably we are away that weekend.
No running today as am on day #4 of 7 rest days. Ankle better but not taking any chances.
Stat of the day: Mark Wood has only played #26 first class cricket matches. Pretty impressive when you think how he is contributing to the new dynamic 5 (Anderson, Broad, Wood, Stokes, Ali). Many newspapers in the UK are drawing parallels with that of the 2005 attack. Nasser has dubbed him 'a mixture of attitude and ability'.
In this blog one of the themes will be the infamous Mediocre Cup, the comp started with my Sydney mates volunteering their respective footie teams. In order of class: Palace (me), Villa (Enda), Newcastle (Tom), Stoke (Timmy), QPR (Heydo) and Cardiff (Jimmy).
The requirements are simple, you must be in the Premiership and the team which finishes highest wins. It also involves much banter throughout the year with a weekly wrap written by the person whose team has had the best result of the weekend. Needless to say, I ended up writing most weekends in the 14/15 season.
Here is an amusing quote from today's BBC:
Meanwhile at Stoke, interpretative dance is high on the agenda as pre-season training gets going in earnest.
Presumably that's why Begovic left...
Link if the picture not viewable: https://mobile.twitter.com/stokecity/status/620554935906635777
With Nzonzi goneski (Stoke's best player) they are now in dire straits.
A couple of other pictures which made me chuckle today, the Aussie rain dance and Michael Vaughn's LBW tweet:
Nice Sammy, plenty more of the Stoke gags please. We miss the humour from the press over here.
ReplyDeleteBTW - I've added a link to your blog from mine so if you stick a click counter on you can expect to see your readership skyrocket...
Tommy I am honoured. Not so sure about those ratings mind.....your link added on mine too so no doubt your ratings going through the roof now
ReplyDeleteSammy, Sammy Sammy, what a complete load of tosh your write. Can't believe you have the gall to bag the Potters after we have dominated the Mediocre Cup for the past two years. So much so that in the interests of fair play i think it only right that i not partake in this seasons events, and give other teams with less success a go.
ReplyDeleteThink you managed about TWO write ups last season and one of them was because Stoke were playing in the F.A Cup i suspect.
Good to see you have stuck Tommy H's blog link to yours and doing your part in helping insomnia for all those people around the world with a sleep disorder.
Good luck for the coming season mate, with Cabeye in the camp now, then you don't have to worry about relegation before Xmas this year.... you should be OK till Easter .
Cheers
Timmy
Mediocre Cup Winner 2013/14 & 2104/15
COYP