Tuesday, 13 September 2005

The Ashes? For us? Oh, you shouldn't have.

See, I told them and I told them to pick Thorpe instead of Pietersen. And would they listen to me? No.

Well done them.

I suppose that for a mouthy badger-haired ear-bejewelled arrogant South African show-boater, he was quite good at using that plank of his to keep the balls that blond guy with the white nose kept throwing at him away from that little sculpture he'd built out of sticks.

4 comments:

  1. One of my brothers' first comments upon Pietersen's ton, after a summer of him going on about "these are ideal conditions for Thorpe" was, "Told you he'd come good".

    Would not have been at all surprised had he got out for 30 though.

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  2. Anonymous7:54 pm

    Headline in an Aussie paper:

    "South Africa win Ashes"

    Ah, Australian whine is the sweetest vintage...

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  3. I didn't expect, whilst passing an idle bit of insomnia reading old JF blog posts, to get suddenly melancholy. RIP Mr Thorpe, you were fantastic.

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