What is it that makes ordinary sportsmen make a transition to rise above everyone else under intense pressure to become a hero, a champion, and a winner? Some people have that ability to do it, to sink that 8 foot putt on the 18th at The British open, to calmly place a penalty in the bottom corner in the World Cup Final, or to score 20 not out batting at number 10 to guide Oakley Saturday II's to victory against Whitchurch in the in drizzle in ...
A cold Northerly wind greeted my friends from Australia this weekend. It is hard to convince them that up until they arrived the sun had shone and the weather has been warm and settled. It is difficult to comprehend the culture shock they have had, for 12 years they have been living in the Northern Territory of Australia that it is basically hot, or fucking hot, yesterday it was 8c and driving rain, it must have felt like Greenland to them, ...
I had an odd experience today which made me very uncomfortable. I went to the Gym at lunchtime today for a bit of a work out, and afterwards when I was finishing my shower I found myself a couple of feet away from a stark naked bloke of about seventy. Not a pleasant sight (don't get me wrong I am no Male model) and a rather unnecessary one in my opinion."Good session?" he said, checking me over as he spoke."Not bad, not bad" I responded attemp...
Would you believe it, after over two weeks of unabated sunshine in Hampshire the rain clouds gathered in Hampshire just in time to wipe out our first colts match of the season. That is vintage Britain that is, if your garden is getting too dry organise a cricket match. Job done.I was dragging myself out of a cosy bed in Broughton at 8.00am when I got a message saying it was raining in some places but not others. For instance, Broughton was dry, ...
We all make decisions in life, some good, some hopelessly misguided, and some with hindsight, that are outrageously daft. However, if there is on one decision I have made that is indisputably brilliant, it was to get myself and my eldest son involved in village cricket at Oakley.I went up to there ground on Thursday to help with preparing the pitches for this weekend's games, and it was great to smell the muskiness of the club house and the ...