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Not so much a 'come down' as 'going down'

Like most of Brighton I'll be washing my hair and doing my nails. Counter protests is what they want. It's no fun when the opposition doesn't arrive. When the 'March for England' first turned up they were met with bewildered looks and shrugged shoulders. Then they had a picnic in Victoria...

Crikey, it's like the old Radio 1 Roadshow. That'll be the riot at Waitrose when they run out of organic pears.

He didn't have a great tour of South Africa the previous winter. He did play against Bangladesh in the early summer Tests, but Pieterson was selected over him for the series, making his Test debut in the first of them. Graham then retired from Test cricket. He knew his time was up and had a lot...

Certainly for an English batsman. His helmet always looked more like a Tommy hat. It was a reflection of how he was always ready to play gritty cricket. He always seemed to be missed when folk talk about the greats. It's all too style over substance. He was a russet coated trench man. Yet people...

He was one of an interesting group who would have averaged as much, if not more, abroad than they did in England. South Africa was the only place he struggled a bit.

Just woken up to this. Really sad. I watched his entire career. He was my favourite English batsman for many years. Arguably England's greatest left hand batsman of all time. More understated than Gower, yet more trustworthy in tight situations. He was a run accumulator rather than anything...

Being a know it all, I'm most affronted not to have been aware of that. I wonder when it was outlawed.

My team suffered it's biggest ever defeat in living memory there a a number of years back. Fittleworth rattled 200+. We were all out for 30 something.

I read that Tyson was quite erratic and his action doesn't really ooze control. But a beamer ? :eek:

I appreciate you making that point. I think how much we identify with something depends on how much we are at ease with it. For me it less of a logical decision than it is an emotive one. As I've grown older I've identified more as being of Sussex than England. I have a mini Sussex flag that...

Jim Parkes (RIP) once told us about the first time the Sussex boys came up against Tyson at Northampton. I seem to remember him talking about the fear as they saw the keeper standing so far back. Bradman said he was the fastest he had ever seen. He was also aided by the back foot no ball rule...

I don't think a lot would have changed really. I asked the opposite question 9 years ago.. https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/threads/2025-and-england-is-an-independent-country-outside-of-the-european-union.308637/

I said at BREXIT that this would happen. I hasten to add that this is not because of BREXIT itself as a political concept though. It is because of a misguided rhetoric about identity and Britishness which has quickened and been fueled in various parts of society. I expected it. The search, or...

I suppose the difference is your grandmother was unlikely to have said it with hatred in her heart. It was only ten years ago my Dad nudged me at a bus stop when a huge black bloke walked by and said 'Look, Big Chief Umbawulla'. He meant no ill. The Daily Mail uses the right words. Nigel Farage...

I'm not 100% convinced that is all of it, but I do agree that water should not be a private commodity. That was a bad move in the 80s.

0.1% of them start rioting ? As I keep saying, this is not a political thing. It is not Left v Right. But I fear an essay would be lost on you if that is your summary.

It's all to do with investment. It's no surprise the Team GB did a Manchester City once the National Lottery came around.. It was believed that in 2012 each UK medal cost £4.5m in funding from UK sport.

Escaping the burning world. Underneath the shade of a Fittleworth tree.

'Extreme Centrist' I must shoehorn that in somewhere.