I'm not one to generalise, as absolutely everyone will tell you, but aren't Yorkshiremen arses! (rhetorical).
I have been listening over the last few days to Test Match Special on the wireless. It has been a delightful experience, regardless of the results on the pitch, with one notable exception - Sir(?) Geoffrey Boycott.
Like most of his Yorkshire breed I have come across, he suffers from two main delusions, namely that:
1. Anything he says is anywhere near correct, remotely relevant or justifiable by any evidence.
2. Anyone wants to hear it!
Apropos absolutely nothing, I paid off Lloyds TSB Bank today! Thirty years of banking with these loan sharks has finally come to an end! Lloyds TSB is out of my life forever. I hope, to use a bastardised Holy Grail reference, it burns down and sinks into the swamp of fiscal obscurity (once it has paid back the extortionate charges it has levied on me over the years)!
Lloyds is already there - Boycott can join it in Grantham.
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2 comments:
Well he used to bore people to tears when he batted. I guess that he brings the same level of excitment into his commentary. He has no sense of irony which means that the other commentators have quite a bit of fun at his expense. He got a rough old time from those awfully decent chaps in the MCC so he can't be all bad. Didn't he get dropped after he scored 246 against India? I think it was in 1964. Oh look a pidgeon has just followed the No 87 bus down the Kirstall road. My dear old thing.
Watch out, Mr. P. I seem to recall that Mr. Botham wasn't adverse to a bit of fisticuffs.
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