Retired politico. A bit too much cricket and sport for my own good. Most views own unless borrowed.
London, England
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🔍 THE STOLEN BADGES OF NON-LEAGUE
Following on from Motorway Services FC, it’s now over to you……
Which other non-league badges are so crap they look like they’ve been stolen from somewhere else altogether??
Here’s a few examples:
Ascot United - ZX Spectrum Game 🕹️
Frenford FC - Leisure Centre 🏊♀️
Shrivenham FC - Sports Direct T-Shirt 🏴
Worcester Raiders - Ant Powder ☠️
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Has any panel had a wider remit in sport than the ECB's Cricket Regulator? Half expect them to rock up to sanction me for how I pitch throwdowns to my 6yo.
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Worcestershire spent £160 on a helicopter to try to dry out the outfield in a bid to get their NatWest Trophy semi-final against Sussex underway, August 13th 1986. Play did start but after 5.2 overs rain returned and ended play for the day. The game extended over three days with Sussex running out winners
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Train company partners with football club to offer cheaper train tickets for London games.
Train company does this despite the fact their last train back from London on Saturdays is…16:19!
👏
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Headingley IS hosting an Ashes test next summer and the fact an official cricket media outlet doesn’t even seem to realise is embarrassing. You don’t have to be an avid fan of the women’s game to appreciate that
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the ball Starc, Hazlewood, Cummins and Lyon were having thrown back to them when they had no idea there was any ball tampering going on
Josh Tongue and Ollie Robinson have had the ball split in half so they can both have a momento from their five-wicket hauls 🏴🏏
Brilliant picture by @dudleyplatypus 📸
#ENGvPAK
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Doorbell footage shows just how rapidly the fire in Stourbridge spread into a garden and ultimately burned down 19 homes.
Yesterdays emergency alert was valid. Following hot dry weather the threat of this being repeated is extremely high.
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MCC clarifies interpretation of law in a game where they are owners of one of the teams.
MCC has issued a Law clarification following two recent incidents in The Hundred of batters not being ready to face the ball, both of them in matches that took place at Lord's.
Read more - lords.org/lords/news-stories…
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An average of 57.3 in List A cricket for a reason 🤝🔥
𝟱𝟬 𝗝𝗔𝗞𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗕𝗕𝗬 👏
Impressive again from the skipper! 🫡
Worcestershire 88/3 (20.1 overs) requiring 289 runs
📊 youpears.com/4w7rdCN
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When brown isn’t brown enough!
Another example of a colour palette designed for yesterday’s climate that can’t reflect today’s
Impossible to overstate how exceptional July has been.
Not just the driest on record for England but less than half of the previous record’s rainfall
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Australian slips in the Ashes after witnessing #clickgate
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While #cricket is on F2A now, the #ECB have backed the wrong horse / thrown the baby out with the bath water (take your pick) in order to make it happen.
Hopefully, @andyburnham has a vision that involves eliminating the #elitism that is what holds the game back the most.
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Sad to see the stands half full for T20 Finals Day despite the reduced capacity. Used to be the highlight of the domestic calendar until the ECB killed this format in favour of the dreaded Hundred 😢
#T20FinalsDay
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Sonic is a socialist eco-warrior, bravely liberating the natural world from the jackboots of mechanical tyranny. Mario by contrast is a grubby destructive capitalist, grabbing coins while squishing innocent goombas just going about their lives.
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Rugby league deserves more.
As a former President of the RFL, I’ll be a staunch advocate for the game in whatever office I hold.
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Panama v England is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries have seen disastrous attempts at Scottish expansionism.
Scotland tried to colonise what is now Panama in 1698 (Darien Scheme), but bankruptcy followed. Scotland invaded England in 1513, but King James IV was killed at the battle of Flodden.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography(ish)-based World Cup analysis.
(I hope my fellow Scots will forgive this painful trip into the past, but I couldn't find one geographic similarity between them.)
ALT Source: https://everything-everywhere.com/the-darien-scheme/
