So girls, apparently the rich old guy that likes to flash his cash (Allen Stanford) couldn't actually be trusted. Is it that something new? Are we actually surprised?
Any women would have taken a look at Sir Al (as TGGtC did) and would have known what a nightmare he was. Yes he could wow, yes he could provide you with the answer to so many quesitons and yes he apparently could buy anything you might want, but ultimately he was an old guy with bad hair and so a tearful ending was all that could be expected.
We have all been there, listening to things he thinks you want to hear, showing you off to his friends, when actually all he does is make you feel slightly grubby...
Sadly this is probably how the English Cricket Board (ECB) feels now, but we cannot blame them for their mistake - it's a novice mistake, a teenage mistake if you like and can we blame them for it? At the Good Girls, the answer has to be a resounding no. We all make mistakes.
The only question is why oh why, didn't these wise old business owls at the ECB ask our opinion?
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Monday, 16 February 2009
The power of the beard ...
Does Chris Gayle's make him the coolest man in cricket? Has Kevin Pietersen been trying to look older? Will Colly ever grow one or is the gingeritus the issue?
What am I talking about now? Beards of course and the power of the beard. With my hat tipped firmly to the great and much missed TMS statistician, Bill Frindall, I want to celebrate that much maligned cricketing facial accessory the extended moustache, the beard.
Think back in time and try and remember the great and the good cricketing beards - it is tough. Moustaches are easy just think of the England and Kiwi cricket teams in the eighties and you are nearly at a full Test XI, let alone the one and only David Boon. But beards, well that is quite another thing entirely. It is almost as bad as thinking up a ginger XI and no, I am not entirely obsessed by ginger cricketers...
Anyway, so far I have KP, Mike Gatting, Chris Gayle, not Merv Hughes (even though it was such a cracking moustache it almost covered his whole chin), W.G. Grace of course, Monty Panaesar, Hashim Amla (who apparently does sport a beard and doesn't just have his head on upside down) but who else?? I know there are more and whilst I try and think of them, I also have am trying to work out why ...
What makes a man grow a beard? Are they hiding? Are they storing food away in a similar way to the great Mr Twit, or are they just lazy and fancy a change? I am going to spend the cricketing winter and summer trying to work this out, amongst all of the other 'why are boys so odd?' questions that cricket generates and will come back in due course....
What am I talking about now? Beards of course and the power of the beard. With my hat tipped firmly to the great and much missed TMS statistician, Bill Frindall, I want to celebrate that much maligned cricketing facial accessory the extended moustache, the beard.
Think back in time and try and remember the great and the good cricketing beards - it is tough. Moustaches are easy just think of the England and Kiwi cricket teams in the eighties and you are nearly at a full Test XI, let alone the one and only David Boon. But beards, well that is quite another thing entirely. It is almost as bad as thinking up a ginger XI and no, I am not entirely obsessed by ginger cricketers...
Anyway, so far I have KP, Mike Gatting, Chris Gayle, not Merv Hughes (even though it was such a cracking moustache it almost covered his whole chin), W.G. Grace of course, Monty Panaesar, Hashim Amla (who apparently does sport a beard and doesn't just have his head on upside down) but who else?? I know there are more and whilst I try and think of them, I also have am trying to work out why ...
What makes a man grow a beard? Are they hiding? Are they storing food away in a similar way to the great Mr Twit, or are they just lazy and fancy a change? I am going to spend the cricketing winter and summer trying to work this out, amongst all of the other 'why are boys so odd?' questions that cricket generates and will come back in due course....
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