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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Aug 9, 2002
Eootball.
Why?
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Abi Posted Aug 9, 2002
Nice one Blues!
If you don't like Cricket, ignore it. It is pretty easy to do. And the rest of us who think Football is full of over paid spoilt brats will do exactly the same! 
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Aug 9, 2002
Would have been better if I'd spelt it right though...
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Abi Posted Aug 9, 2002
You have got to respect any sport where you break for 
and 
. I mean how civilised is that?
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Orcus Posted Aug 9, 2002
Hey, and what do you think footballers have in the changing room at half time?
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Aug 9, 2002
Oranges.
Everybody knows that.
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Abi Posted Aug 9, 2002
They drink Isotonic sports drinks - I know because the advertisers tell us so! 
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Orcus Posted Aug 9, 2002
...and do they kick them into the bin with one touch when they've finished? 
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Researcher Eagle 1 Posted Aug 9, 2002
I may be from the U.S., but I have a reliable source (from Wales) who claims that rugby players, when not in a match that really matters, will do shots of whisky before a match and, if they're really daring, at halftime. *Shrug*
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Orcus Posted Aug 9, 2002
not in my playing days 
...or at least not in my teams 
Sounds like a good plan though
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Aug 9, 2002
"If you don't like Cricket, ignore it. It is pretty easy to do. And the rest of us who think Football is full of over paid spoilt brats will do exactly the same!"
Cricket is pretty easy to ignore, except whenever there's a Test Match on and there's coverage of the entire day's play on BBC2 (I believe things have changed since I left the shores of the UK). Cricket receives almost no coverage at other times.
Football, on the other hand, is almost impossible to ignore, particularly when the World Cup is being played, thanks to the blanket coverage it gets in all areas of the mass media. I was thankful to BSkyB (Murdoch) for grabbing the Premier League and keeping it largely to themselves, because of the amount of time it freed up on the BBC and ITV for something else.
Now I'm in the US, I can get a couple of Fox (Murdoch again) sports channels, one of which is the Fox Sports World channel. You may as well call it the Fox soccer channel though - English Premier League, Scottish Premier League, Italian Serie A and B, Deutsche Bundesleague, plus every league and competition from South America.
They do however show cricket once or twice a week from Sky's archives. They show one innings for four hours, break for an hour to show Sky Sports News, and then show the other team's knock for a further four hours. It's not terribly exciting watching a one day international from ten years ago, but it's all I can get here, so I'm grateful for it.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Aug 9, 2002
Cricket and Football both displace all the good sci-fi on TV... 
And Cricket on Radio 4 Long Wave means I'm stuck in the living room when I'm listening to a good programme, as the kitchen and bathroom radios are MW/LW only, and Radio 4 MW copies LW, rather than FM. What the hell is Radio 5 Live for, if not to deflect all the sports coverage somewhere I don't have to hear it? 
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Aug 9, 2002
Relax Peet. In a few years, when digital broadcasting becomes the norm, there will be so many channels that cricket will have one all to itself
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Aug 9, 2002
That was my big hope for On Digital; that it would buy up *all* the football coverage and let us folks with terrestrial get on with watching "Buffy" and "Star Trek" at their appointed times.
I'm still hopeful that the clubs won't be allowed to sell footage to any of the networks until the long, drawn-out court case is over... 
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Aug 9, 2002
>Cricket and Football both displace all the good sci-fi on TV<
Yeah, but an hours worth of television every other month isn't much harm, is it?
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AneRikke (Keeper of the Unknown and All Things Misplaced ) Posted Aug 9, 2002
For a long time I have been wondering about cricet. What its all about, the roules and so on. A friend tried to fill me in once - but found out he really didnt know eighter
Can someone explain it, or recomend an webpage where I can try to find the meaning of this game?
Not that Ill ever need to know - but it stil would be nice to 
AneRikke
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Aug 9, 2002
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AneRikke (Keeper of the Unknown and All Things Misplaced ) Posted Aug 9, 2002
Thankyou Peet
I can see why my friend got stuck trying to explain this to me I think it'll take some time studying those pages to get¨it.
I really love "The Spirit of Cricket" - I know a game or two who has got a lot learn in that area!
AneRikke
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- 3: Abi (Aug 9, 2002)
- 4: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Aug 9, 2002)
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