So Kent CCC – did it work? Will some of those 6,000 now come and support the county down at Canterbury? I would say over half of the crowd were actually Essex fans so in some ways it played into their hands. But who am I to argue. I paid my £20 to line the commercial pockets and I actually had a jolly good evening.
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If my work schedule would have allowed, I would have been in Cape Town, enjoying the beer, the culture and the football. Instead I was on a Southeastern train following the game on Twitter. Eight years ago in South Korea I travelled from Daegu to Busan, a journey of over 300 miles in just 2 hours for the same cost of my 20 minute journey into the suburbs. I sat in reclined luxury and watched Cameroon play Saudi Arabia beamed live to my seat whilst a pretty hostess brought me a beer. Technology advances saw me sit on a broken seat whilst a drunk girl, intoxicated by the excesses of Royal Ascot throw up into her handbag, whilst her mate reminded her that her “G-string was in there”.
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You may remember dear reader that last Sunday on Father’s Day I was absent from the Fuller household, enjoying the sunshine and “local” sights in Oslo. Instead of simply dismissing this US-created excuse for the card industry for another year, the little Fullers wanted to treat Daddy and so we postponed it a week. So queue a [...]
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I wasn’t there but got angry watching the game from Hove last night. Sussex beat Kent because Kent were 2 runs short on the Duckworth Lewis method after 11 overs because the light was so bad – in the opinion of the umpires. The game was an officially classed night game and so according to the [...]
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On the hottest day of the year what better way to spend a family Sunday afternoon than at one of the most picturesque cricket grounds in the world? There can be no denying the appeal of Canterbury’s St Lawrence Ground on the harshest of English summer days, but when the sun is out, the temperature [...]
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