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This has been agonised over 🏏
Best England Test Team since 1985 when I started watching ❤️
1. Gooch
2. Cook
3. Stewart
4. Root
5. Pietersen
6. Stokes (c)
7. Flintoff
8. Russell (w)
9. Swann
10. Broad
11. Anderson
Would love to hear your views
#CricketTwitter
Be nice 😆
@YesterdaysStars
How does he split opinion apart from with planks who know nothing about United and football? A warrior. A titan. And the ultimate big game player ❤️ Sparky
For anyone bored of T20 this is the perfect antidote.
1964 Ashes highlights narrated by the mellifluous tones and perfect charm of John Arlott.
Includes
@GeoffreyBoycott
maiden test and Bob Simpson's gargantuan 311 at Old Trafford ❤️ 😍
A must watch.
1. Gambling Law👨⚖️ 👩⚖️ ⚖
I'm a Solicitor who deals with holding Bookies to account for bad practices and failing problem gamblers.
What I want to do is to represent a much bigger group and apply even more pressure to the Bookies in numbers.
Basically to bring Group Action.
My First Ever Visit to Old Trafford v West Ham on 26 August 1985: my 10th Birthday 🎂 ⚽️. Panini Stickers Family Stand.
2-0 win: goals from Hughes and Strachan. Part of the first 10 games we won at the start of 85/6.
United Fans: when was your first trip to OT?
#MUFC_FAMILY
Gloucestershire, led by Mike Procter, take the field for their John Player League match v Warwickshire, Moreton-in-Marsh, September 2nd 1979. One of the delights of the JPL was games at small outgrounds. Moreton-in-Marsh was a regular List A venue from 1972 to 1996
I'd imagine The Blast is the most significant source of income for most counties, including Yorkshire, who Joe once played for. His comments smack of a guy in the cosy isotonic England bubble disconnected from the travails of the rank and file cricket world. Really sad 😔
There needs to be more joined up thinking. Losing the Blast is one of the more ridiculous ideas surely? Not only is it hugely popular but it is massively important to the counties because of that popularity plus EVERY OTHER COUNTY PLAYS THE FORMAT!
40 years ago today your goal against Liverpool in the Milk Cup Final! Out skilling and out muscling Alan Hansen. Where does the time go?
@NormanWhiteside
Astonishing figures from Middlesex's Josh de Caires against title-chasing Essex.
The 21-year-old off-spinner has now claimed 20 wickets in 10 first-class games, but 15 of those have come in two innings 🤯
SCORE:
#CountyCricket2023
The Sky build-up to start of play can be a bit prolix at times. Anyone remember Mr Benn on the BBC and then over to Richie/Tony Lewis at 1055am? 😆 🏏 ⚱️ 🏺
Isn't Porridge with Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale just absolutely fantastic 👏 👌 😀 👍
Don't make them like that anymore sadly!
I almost forgot Mr Mackay
"Fletcher!"
Feel sorry for modern kids this Christmas 🎄 😢. We had great TV and board games 🎲 they just push bloody buttons these days. When is Only Fools and Horses and Minder on?! They are definitely missing out and we were the lucky ones growing up in 70s/80s/90s.
He won every domestic and European honour 🎖 and when his career ended he was United's and England's top goalscorer in history. I wish we had more overrated players like him.
Mike Procter leg glances Imran Khan for four on his way to 101, Gloucestershire v Worcestershire, Gillette Cup semi-final, August 15th 1973. Procter then returned figures of 12-2-31-3 as his side won by five runs. He was, unsurprisingly, named Man of the Match (Ken Kelly)
All these words on Sky about Maddison who is pretty and neat and tidy but nothing more. Barely a comment about Fernandez whose passing is telling and sublime and makes a difference to most games. Not sure what game some people see 🤔
Fantastic BBC Alba documentary about Jock Stein ⚽️
First British Manager to win the European Cup and a real tactical pioneer.
It's sad that Jock rarely gets a mention in the established pantheon of great Scottish Managers (Busby, Shankly, Ferguson).
No idea why.
Tomorrow is July 1 and not a single Test Match yet this summer.
Surely this ridiculous position is unprecedented?
@fredfertang
@huwzat
Who remembers though the uneasy June TV split with Wimbledon and Ascot? 🏏 🐎 🎾
Richie competing with Julian Wilson and Dan Maskell? 😆
@englandcricket
Ben Stokes (Durham – captain)
Rehan Ahmed (Leicestershire)
James Anderson (Lancashire)
Gus Atkinson (Surrey)
Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire)
Shoaib Bashir (Somerset)
Harry Brook (Yorkshire)
Zak Crawley (Kent)
Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire)
Ben Foakes (Surrey)
Tom
England v New Zealand 2nd Test 🏏. In nearly 40 years I've never seen a better Test Match. Have you? What a shame there's no 3rd Test! And a disgrace too.
I've seen some crass and craven England selectorial decisions 🏏 in my time (not all involving DI Gower) but the omission of Foakes takes the gold medal.
Gutless decision and another poke in the eye to the County game.
Who could blame Foakes if he committed now to franchise?
I miss County Cricket 🏏 when the matches were shared around the counties
At Lancashire we had wonderful and regular fixtures at Blackpool, Southport, Lytham St. Annes & Aigburth (Liverpool) ❤️ 🌹
How about it
@lancscricket
Make the Members happy
@BumbleCricket
@BackStop130
I think Sir Bobby (arguably the best British player ever) said that Duncan was the only player who made him feel inferior.
And let's not forget the quality Sir Bobby played with and against from George Best through to Pele and Eusebio and many more ❤️
Duncan Edwards opening cards on his 21st Birthday - tragically he was gone just four months later.
The greatest United player of all time - many say …
🇾🇪⚽️
@unitedbeforfergie
David Bairstow, Graham Dilley and David Gower are passed by David Frith on the way into the MCG ahead of the washed out ODI between England and West Indies during the B&H World Series Cup, January 12th 1980 (Patrick Eagar)
Sir Vivian Richards is one of the best players in the history of Somerset County Cricket Club.
He is the first player to be honoured on our new Legends Wall! 🧱
#WeAreSomerset
@ivivianrichards
A big thank you to
@AndyMitten
and the top guys
@UWSmag
for their feature on my book "Inglory Inglory Man United" in April's edition.
It's a double page spread at Pages 30-31.
Real pleasure to work with these top people 👏 👍 🙌
I remember during the Poll Tax disturbances in the Ashes summer of 1989 someone unimaginatively daubed Thatcher Out. Only for a more creative spark to add LBW b. Alderman 0 😆 🤣 😂
Worth remembering today that in 1990 there was an open-top parade when England finished fourth at the World Cup.
Southgate didn’t get everything right (who does?) but compared to so much before he’s been remarkable.
Ross: I was at Old Trafford on New Year's Day 1990 when we played QPR and Ray was playing for Rangers.
Ray made an announcement before over the PA wishing all United Fans a Happy New Year.
A lovely touch from him. The fans loved it too 👏 ❤️ 👌
Always miss this man's cheeky grin that little bit more this time of year.
💙🤍❤️🖤
To all those who have lost someone dear. Remember, we remain the light they once were. Shine Brightly.💪🏻
38 years ago to the day saw the 10 year old me attend Old Trafford for the first time: 2-0 win v West Ham. Strachan and Hughes on the mark.
3 points today would be just as special!
⚽️ 🏆
#MUFC
#MUFC_FAMILY
@mroller98
Or he's not an opening bat. He's talented but clearly a 4 or 5 but not likely to usurp Root or Stokes any time soon. I think the stick directed at Crawley is largely unfair as he's been played out of position. Its like shoving an attacking midfielder to the left wing.
#MUFC_FAMILY
In my opinion this was possibly the nadir of Fergie's tenure: 34 years tomorrow a 1-0 win v Wimbledon in front of (wait for it) 23,368 fans at Old Trafford.
23,368 😔 😟 🙁
Youngsters don't remember a United crisis!
WH fined £19.2m for failing to protect consumers and weak anti-money laundering controls.
Sadly, the Commission cannot require operators to repay individual customers for LCCP breaches.
Time to challenge Calvert and a argue for a Statutory Duty of Care?
@Carra23
Well said Jamie; I'm a United Fan but I think your analysis is pretty objective and on point. Always worth a listen. I tend to discover something about the game I don't know from your observations which I think is the acid test of a fine pundit
All this nonsense about fatigue in January is annoying in the extreme.
On 1 January 1989 United beat Liverpool 3-1 💓 then played Middlesbrough away the very next day: 2 January 1989.
Zero complaints.
This modern trend of referring to midfielders as a "6" or an "8" is a complete nonsense. Why can't they just get up and down the park like they used to? 🙄
Gambling Law 🎰 👨⚖️
I wonder how many Free Bets and Incentives and Gambling Advertisements have been sent out to Customers during Safer Gambling Week?
Actions speak louder than words.
Why do the cricket commentators have to say "Emirates" Old Trafford every bloody time? We get the picture. Although just what Washbrook, Tyldesley, MacLaren and Paynter would make of this flagrant corporate overkill is probably unrepeatable! 🌹 🌹 🌹
Ian Botham, trousers ripped, on his way to a hundred, England v Pakistan, 1st Test, Lord's, June 15th 1978. He took 8 for 34 in Pakistan's second innings. England won by an innings and 120 runs, bowling Pakistan out for 105 and 139
@R_o_M
@mancs77
It's time that people (who clearly know balls all about the game) stop comparing completely different players. If you must compare then compare like with like.
No bigger cricket fan than me but after 2 overs of
@IPL
I switched over to a 1982 repeat of Minder on ITV4.
And Terry and Arthur are far more interesting 🤔 😳 👀
Says enough...
#Cricket
#CricketTwitter
The Ashes ⚱️ 🏏
Now it's (apparently) stopped raining 🌧 can't we ask the spectators to help dry the ground as they did at The Oval in 1968?
Perhaps now as then we can win with 6 minutes to spare?
#Ashes2023
#Ashes23
The worse excesses of Bazball now manifesting: hubris, intransigence and non acceptance nonsense.
People stating they'd prefer to lose in that manner than draw?
So we'd sooner be one down going into Lords with Australia full of confidence than be all square?
Rubbish. 🏏 ⚱️ 🏺
Watching Jonny Bairstow and Harry Brook smash New Zealand all around Old Trafford, the thought occurs - has English cricket ever had it so good? White-ball teams imperious. Test side reinventing the game. Even the Hundred was decent. Ignore doomsayers. This is the golden age
When he first came into the Yorkshire side in 1976 the straightness of Bill Athey's bat meant there were comparisons with
@GeoffreyBoycott
- he never quite matched up to Sir Geoffrey, and left Yorks for Gloucestershire and then Sussex, but he had a decent career nonetheless
Snooker 🎱 is more dangerous than a shotgun or a hike in the base rate for business owners.
Watch 1 frame there's a real risk that's you: ensconced on the settee for 17 days
It's not '87 and I'm not an 11 year old on Easter Holidays.
But that nostalgia is kind of the point?
@JamesL1927
Loved this me. The penalty retake! The lad calling him a fat bastard! The other kid swinging on the goalpost and letting one in! The bloke genuinely believing he was Bobby Charlton right down to the Number 9 on the Back! Epic!
Gambling News 🎰 🐎 🎲
I often see many people in my local shop by reams of Lottery Tickets 🎟
Something tells me there might be Affordability issues 🤔
So why then is the Lottery seemingly excluded from the Government's Affordability plans?
Friends on Charity boards?
Why is it that almost every football pundit these days has to predicate each sentence with "To Be Fair"?
An absolute nonsense of word soup.
Would you say "To Be Unfair"?
Exactly 💯
You can sense the power and the balance in that stroke. Over 100 years later.
PS Please don't stop posting. The proper cricket family love your material and fully appreciate it 👍 ❤️
Do not allow a minority of plant pots peddling stale grudges to affect the true fans 🏏
The swashbuckling Lionel Tennyson lofts a ball into the mound stand, Middlesex v Hampshire, Lord's, July 21st 1923. He scored 34 in 45 minutes in a stand of 55 with Phil Mead. Tennyson's career record was average (16828 runs at 23.33) but many of innings were memorable
An emotional Dickie Bird wipes away a tear after being given a guard of honour by England and India at the start of his 66th and last Test, Lord's, June 20th 1996. He retired from all cricket at the end of the following summer
@lennonswalrus
George Harrison bought a bungalow for his Parents near to where I lived in Cheshire in the mid 60s. Of course it attracted visitors but George's Mother invited them in for tea 🍵 and biscuits. The warmth and hospitality of North West England 🇬🇧 has no equal!
1 of 2 Gambling Law 🎰 👨⚖️ 👩⚖️
Who better then to oversee the creation of a Gambling Ombudsman than the Betting and Gaming Council- the Industry Body for Betting and Gaming.
Can anyone see the problem here? Conflict of Interest perhaps?
@AidanWalshMUFC
Very good analysis. Same number of goals but in 08/09 we won the PL. Conclusion- by cross cancelling equations we all hated at school- the present team are shit and CR7 ain't the problem!
Can't we just play them on Wednesdays without the PL break? Like we bloody used to? In 1985 Frank McAvennie played for Scotland on the Wednesday in Melbourne in a WC qualifier and still played for West Ham on the Saturday!
Tuesday night's England/Italy match is at long last an international worth watching.
Victory for England would pretty much guarantee qualification as they are currently three points ahead of Italy and Ukraine.
These friendlies,like the one against Australia,are just naff.
Over rates 🏏
Day 1, 4th Test v Pakistan in '87 England bowled 38 overs before lunch and 105 in a day.
Through the 90s Championship sides were required to bowl 110 per day.
Now- even with spinners- it's 80 odd.
As John Lydon said:
"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
Anyone notice the amount of B365 adverts during Sky Sport's coverage of the Manchester Derby? ⚽️ 🎰
Exactly what Vulnerable Customers/Problem Gamblers do not need on a Sunday afternoon.
Ian Botham is congratulated on dismissing Graeme Wood, 3rd Ashes Test, Leeds, July 16th 1981. Botham had not taken a five-for as captain, but replaced by Mike Brearley he bounced back with 6 for 95 ... and then came his heroics with the bat ...
Viv Richards walks out to bat in his final Test innings, 5th Test, The Oval, August 11th 1991. He batted at No.8 in the first innings due to a stomach upset but coming in at No.6 second time round he made 60
A little known fact from this game.
During the run chase Bradman who was 173* at the time allowed a young Neil Harvey to hit the winning 4. Had The Don struck the boundary his average would have been 100 even if Hollies snared him for a duck at The Oval.
Love this game 🏏 ❤️
Crowds gather outside Headingley ahead of the first day of the 4th Ashes Test, July 22nd 1948. Hopes of seeing Don Bradman bat were dashed when England won the toss. In four Tests at Leeds Bradman scored a remarkable 963 runs at 192.60 bowing out with 173*, his last Test ton
Wow, just come across this. You get fans may not know but this chap is Neil Webb, was part of Sir Alex’s 1st trophy winning side & player a pivotal role. Now working as a postman, bet his deliveries are still first class. Crazy how wages back then couldn’t support retirement
MUFC - Aston Villa ... at Old Trafford ... August 1985 ... first match of a new season ... and a great start it was ... £4 for a 4-0 win ... those were different times ...
@UtdBeforFergie