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Not many Celtic fans carry Saltires about, you know

Let's hope they appoint some Pakistani umpires for the Ashes, eh?

You can't really grow satsumas in England though, innit? Even normal ones. I suppose shipping them from Santander to Plymouth is OK.

EASY-PEEL SUPER SATSUMAS RIPE FOR SALE By Alison Kershaw, PA Supermarket chain Tesco is hoping to score a hit with an unusual fruit which is a "super-sized" version of a traditional favourite. From tomorrow, shoppers will be able to pick up a Giant Satsuma - a new "citrus hybrid" that...

Lancashire 362 drew with Middlesex 350-9d Points: Lancs 11, Middx 11 Lancs are joint top with us.

What he said. The umpires were absolutely right to award the match to England; the ICC were absolutely right to back the umpires (the match referee Mike Procter could have changed the umps and carried on, apparently, which would have led to an enormous crisis with new precendents being set all...

I'd be interested to see whether Darrell Hair ever umpires a Test match again.

I don't think it's a thing we should be cheering, to be honest. Call me a bit of a purist, but I think this is a bad day for cricket.

I went to Old Trafford for a Champs League game once (I didn't pay, trust me) and we sat in a glass box/had prawn sandwiches/the lot. The weirdest thing was that there was a switch with which you could raise and lower the crowd noise outside. Oh yeah -- and because we were "in sight of the...

News just in. One of the men on the plane has been charged with "Looking at me in a funny way." He's been named as Mr Winston Kodogo, of 55 Mercer Road.

Heathrow Connect, Hammersmith and City line, Jubilee line.

Somebody emailed TMS earlier to point out that around the time the crisis unfolded, the odds against England winning dropped from an average of 50/1 to around 6/4. Co-incidence, or not? I dunno.

Soper says it "appears that the umpires have decided that Pakistan have foreited the match".

Mike Soper, the former chairman of Surrey, has been in the umpires' room, and says he doesn't think there's much chance of play tomorrow.

BBC TMS quotes the ECB as saying that meetings are taking place now do decide whether play will go on tomorrow. Sounds like they ought to fly in this bloke

[/b] The voters must have been very thin if any of them actually entered the ballot box. Perhaps the Argus meant the polling booth.

And another victory for a Sussex side. Marvellous. Second XI Championship Stirlands Cricket Club, Chichester (Day 3 of 3): Derbyshire 128 (LJ Wright 5-16) and 239 (T Lungley 97; RJ Kirtley 7-31) Sussex 303 (CD Nash 61, NRK Turk 59) and 65-4 Sussex won by six wickets end 182157 AUG 06

I wish there was an English version of their website.

Isn't it done by an incredibly austere institution called the Académie francaise? http://www.academie-francaise.fr/

TRIO STOLE `INTIMATE' PHOTOS OF TV PRESENTER LESLIE By Lucy Collins, PA Friends who attempted to sell stolen "intimate" mobile phone images of ex-Blue Peter presenter John Leslie and his girlfriend were described as a "grubby little trio" by a judge today. Sophie Queffeleant, her boyfriend...