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Recent content by BoyBrumby

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    England's best/worst since 66 and all that

    Our national football team's ongoing tournament travails have been touched on in the recent "The most depressed you've been after a sporting event" thread, so I thought it was time to bring CW's collective analytical acumen to bear on ranking them in some kind of order. I've excluded the 1968...
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    Five bands you've seen live

    ...and one you haven't. The trick is to guess which is the lie amongst the live. My six: 1) Elbow 2) Doves 3) The Waterboys 4) The Wonder Stuff 5) Madness 6) Girls Aloud
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    Memories of cricket

    If one casts one's mind back to those far-seeming days before those mounted harbingers of the apocalypse (Death, Pestilence, Famine & Bog Roll Shortage) cantered down the empty streets of what was once human civilisation one vaguely recalls this thing called "cricket". Oh, I know it seems...
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    The Final (and 3rd place play off)

    Good start to the build up for England as Willie Heinz is ruled out with a hamstring and Ben Spencer is called up to replace him and presumably gets a spot in the XXIII. Always said we should've had three 9s in the squad...
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    Tonga lead the rugby union world

    In ringers. :ph34r: No fewer than 19 of their 31 man squad are foreign born. Their pacific island neighbours Samoa aren't very far behind with 18 non natives in Japan for the tournament. Given the vast majority of these are NZ-born (two entire XVs worth, in fact) it does rather give lie to...
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    FC cricketer & Windrush scandal victim dies without apology

    From The Guardian A sad coda to one of the most shameful episodes in the recent history of this septic isle. Richard "Wes" Stewart, who, like too, too many others entered the UK as a British citizen only to be told over half a century later he was an illegal alien, has passed away before any...
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    Pets

    This is Alfredo, my mog. I always thought of myself as more of a dog person, but he's an adorable little bugger. Not a fan of other cats but happily not much of a hunter. Has only ever brought back two mice, both alive. One I managed to catch and one scuttled under the bed, never to be seen again.
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    Are there many overweight cricketers who were top class or even an ATG?

    I'm stretching the defintion of "top class" as far as the elastic on his waistband, but no discussion of cricketing trenchermen can be fully complete, or, as the man himself rarely was, completely full, without a nod to England's Ian "Bunny" Austin:
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    Rashid better than Warne: official

    Has taken more wickets in a series in India than the tubby Victorian hack ever managed. We all know performance in the subcontinent is the acid test for spinners, so quod erat demonstrandum I think. :cool:
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    My fellow Englishmen...

    One of our number, in that blind, flailing way of his, has raised an important question: So what is worse? Failing to make it at all or being all sucky when we get there and going out in straight sets. Poll to follow.
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    Jonbrooks chucking Megathread

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    Making like Lazarus

    Apropos of Mitchell Johnson's transformation from pussy-whipped, bi-hemispheric joke to steely eyed, cannon-armed destroyer of all hopes English. Have their ever been any other startling comebacks from similar troughs of form or depths of injury despair? Such were Johnson's woes that, it's not...
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    *Official* English Football Season 2013-14

    Ha, I meant "immense" in the literal sense. He was almost completely spherical when he played for the Bantams. EDIT: Pictorial evidence:
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    Battle of the TV Show Intros

    "You diabolical..."
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    The Lame Joke Corner

    I didn't really want to spend £100 on this, but both Hitler and Saddam Hussein previously owned it. It was the grater of two evils.
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