There are very few sports biographies/"auto"biographies that are any good. They just make a lot of money as Christmas/birthday presents, I reckon.
The only one I've read in years was Mike Atherton's, which was jolly interesting, and -- because he's obscenely clever -- very well written.
I've met Blofeld as well and thought he was pretty decent. In fact, I've somehow blagged in to the TMS 50th birthday party in the Lord's long room in a couple of weeks, so I might see him again. :clap2: :clap2: :clap2:
Anyway: Ian Botham's a ****. John Major's a top bloke. Pete Waterman is...
I'd say it's IMPOSSIBLE to do on your own. TMS not only has a rota of commentators doing 20 minutes at a time, it has expert summarisers, a scorer, and listeners' emails etc to fall back on.
Local radio just CAN'T AFFORD all that. I wish it could, it would be ACE.
I made the train with AGES to spare.
To be fair, Leesy is my mate. I am a professional broadcaster and a cricket fan but NOT a cricket broadcaster by any stretch of the imagination. Leesy spotted me eating my lunch and asked if I'd help out, because he didn't fancy talking to himself for...
Will we actually get emails when someone replies to a topic we've posted in? I haven't had them for, ooh, years now. And yes, I've had the function switched on.