Modern sport is shit isn't it?
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Not so in my part of London. I see kids out all summer playing cricket. All Asian.Almunia is a clown wrote: ↑Thu Mar 22, 2018 7:24 pmA whole generation of kids are growing up not interested in cricket, in London at least.
The two decent cricket clubs near me Highgate (where I used to play) and Southgate cc are both still running.arrgee wrote: ↑Thu Mar 22, 2018 11:30 pmNot so in my part of London. I see kids out all summer playing cricket. All Asian.Almunia is a clown wrote: ↑Thu Mar 22, 2018 7:24 pmA whole generation of kids are growing up not interested in cricket, in London at least.
Yes plenty of Asian kids still interested round here. Get the feeling we have to tap into this resource of potential talent more than ever, something historically we've always struggled to do, to keep the game alive beyond the privileged few.arrgee wrote:Not so in my part of London. I see kids out all summer playing cricket. All Asian.Almunia is a clown wrote: ↑Thu Mar 22, 2018 7:24 pmA whole generation of kids are growing up not interested in cricket, in London at least.
DB10GOONER wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 7:32 amAs an Oirish / Aussie half breed I have to admit to loving every rolling disaster that embraces English cricket at international level. Never was there a more beautiful set of words constructed than "English batting collapse".![]()
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Strangely my Oirish half never embraced the "hate England" bullshit of so many of my hypocritical countrymen when it came to football. Probably because I support an English team and used to want to see the likes of Adams Seamo Smudge Wrighty etc do well.
But cricket? Love when the Aussies or anyone hand your lads a good thrashing!![]()
As an aside... Phil Jupitus came out with a belter on some show years ago when asked about the Oirish cricket team. He affected a Lords BM upper-class accent and said: "What? Cricket? The Mick doesn't play cricket!".![]()
LeftfootlegendGooner wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 10:12 amDB10GOONER wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 7:32 amAs an Oirish / Aussie half breed I have to admit to loving every rolling disaster that embraces English cricket at international level. Never was there a more beautiful set of words constructed than "English batting collapse".![]()
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Strangely my Oirish half never embraced the "hate England" bullshit of so many of my hypocritical countrymen when it came to football. Probably because I support an English team and used to want to see the likes of Adams Seamo Smudge Wrighty etc do well.
But cricket? Love when the Aussies or anyone hand your lads a good thrashing!![]()
As an aside... Phil Jupitus came out with a belter on some show years ago when asked about the Oirish cricket team. He affected a Lords BM upper-class accent and said: "What? Cricket? The Mick doesn't play cricket!".![]()
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What were in the cricket team? One of the stumps![]()
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I went to catholic primary school in Hackney and we played a bit of cricket but not against other schools, not in a league, and cos the the guy who took it (science or history teacher) was in to it more than football. Also, we played a little bit of cricket at secondary school in Wood Green but again, much the same.Almunia is a clown wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 11:21 amGo beyond inner London & yes there is some cricket, Finchley, Hornsey, Barnet in the suburbs, but try & find kids playing Cricket in Hackney or Islington is not so easy, it's as if Middlesex don't want the proles paying the game.![]()
I've lived in the Gooner Valley since age 7, years ago kids used to play in the street in summer & in school. My lads went school in Highgate & have never played in school or locally. Nor have their mates.
There used to be one lad in school, from a middle class background played with Middlesex schoolboys, in a school that produced many famous footballers& also boxers, not as if Middlesex sent any coaches round to check out any other potential talent though.![]()
I don't reckon Middlesex Cricket have ever bothered with Islington or Hackney!
Thought there were at least a few Yorks, Lancs & Essex lads from ordinary schools?arseofacrow wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 1:24 pm
Mark Stoneman - the only current English test player not to have gone to fee paying school.![]()
Like the arseholes in, "What Richard Did" by Lenny Abrahamson? There's some rugger buggers who deserve a cucumber served straight.DB10GOONER wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:58 pmI think world wide there is a perception that English cricket is only played by the upper classes.
As an aside.... I lived for quite a while in an area in Dublin full of rugger bugger arseholes and a well known towel flicker club. Local story went that the best rugby player in that area never played for the club because he wasnt from "the right kind of family". He played at school then played football at senior level because the towel flickers wouldn't have him.![]()
That kind of moronic snobbery pisses me off.![]()
What about in ODIs when that oirish originating Eoin Morgan plays for England. You can’t support the convicts.DB10GOONER wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 7:32 amAs an Oirish / Aussie half breed I have to admit to loving every rolling disaster that embraces English cricket at international level. Never was there a more beautiful set of words constructed than "English batting collapse".![]()
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Strangely my Oirish half never embraced the "hate England" bullshit of so many of my hypocritical countrymen when it came to football. Probably because I support an English team and used to want to see the likes of Adams Seamo Smudge Wrighty etc do well.
But cricket? Love when the Aussies or anyone hand your lads a good thrashing!![]()
As an aside... Phil Jupitus came out with a belter on some show years ago when asked about the Oirish cricket team. He affected a Lords BM upper-class accent and said: "What? Cricket? The Mick doesn't play cricket!".![]()