Cor. I'd heard he was on an absolute PACKET at the Mail, so the Guardian must have bust the budget to get him. It's not like they're short of good sports hacks either -- or ones based in Sussex. But good for him.
I wish I'd had money on that now. Bugger.
Anyway -- Also pissing me off today: the sign for the Oval's 100 Hundred's (sic) bar has an incorrect apostrophe in it. Fools.
And Ramps and Murray took part in the biggest strop I've seen on a cricket field for yonks. I thought it was going to get a...
Roll Up For the Donkey Derby - Seagulls Ska (!)
Debora - T. Rex
Julie's Got a New 7-Inch Single - Helen Love
You Don't Know Her Name - Maps
Pass It On - The Coral
David Cameron is going to Georgia today. That'll be the same David Cameron who criticised Gordon Brown for going to Iraq in order to score political points...
The government are about to find themselves up the creek after the Olympics. They started handing out honours like confetti during the Blair years (Paul Collingwood MBE for playing just one 2005 Ashes test, anyone?) and now they are going to have to keep up the momentum.
For example -- it's...
Get him some Tango?
One of my colleagues -- an absolutely top geezer, incidentally, but a Palace fan -- is retiring later this year and I'm in the same sort of quandry.
Obviously one of the most significant things to take place in the world this year.
But not on NSC where if it doesn't involve bickering about Kuipers, or restaurant recommendations, it ain't worth it.
Arundel: Sussex Sharks v Somerset Sabres
Weather: Sunny
Wicket: Firm
Sussex Sharks: M J Prior (Wkt), M H Yardy, L J Wright
C J Adams (Capt), M W Goodwin, D R Smith, C D Hopkinson
R J Hamilton-Brown, R S C Martin-Jenkins, C J Liddle, R J Kirtley.
Somerset Sabres: C Kieswetter (Wkt), M E...