Window Cleaner

We wuz robbed.

Looks like there's some good batting from Ervine (again) and McClaren this morning, not to mention Alsop's maiden( ? ) first class ton yesterday. With Warks losing badly already it looks like we may just be going for it here. Of course bowling Surrey out again in time may not be so easy. Still at worst we'll probably be about 8 points behind Warks going into the last round of games in 10 days time or so.

Well I was far too busy being a hedonistic postgraduate student to remember a whole lot about that era but I doubt that thin air trading and what might happen in darkest africa in 20 years time were factors that affected the stock exchange at that time. If I recall at all correctly shares concerned entities that actually produced something and everybody else bought government bonds for the 4% or so annual interest. Do they still sell premium bonds nowadays ?

Well at a guess I'd suggest that a succession of farkwit labour governments had a fair bit to do with our decline in the late 60s. Didn't we have to go begging to the IMF for a bail-out in that period?

Then be like me and not give a toss about either Bournemouth or Jack Wheelchair.

I have no idea, perhaps there's less money than some like to think. We'll have to wait and see what the accounts say come springtime.

Virtually all of the players have performed well at sometime this season. Trouble is they rarely all perform well at the same time. Take this last match, not bad on the bowling front apart from the 50 or so put on by their last wicket pair. All we needed was some decent batting but all failed apart from Ervine and Vincent, although we probably needed a 100 or so from Vince yesterday. Now the bowling is looking average again so we'll be looking at a big total on the last day. Consistency is what's lacking really this season.

Vince did well, so did Ervine, the rest of them have left us in a bit of a sticky situation at 210/7, especially as we were 198/4 at one point. Catastrophic collapse then, last 6 wickets lost for about 23 runs..

Is Watson still the England goalkeeping coach ?

17/2 so far so it's time for Vince to step up isn't it..

They'll need to get their skates on then. Anyway with the fees I see being bandied about for some pretty average players I can't help feeling that those who've done their business already will be the winners.

Ah but that's a different box of cats.

Heisenberg.... He of the uncertainty principle.

Of elderberries ?

If the big 5 start farming out on loan all of their players for whom they have no immediate role, the transfer market will collapse under the weight.

17 million euros that is, still too much no doubt.

Well getting himself picked for the last WC when he was obviously still half crocked and with just half a game in about 18 months wasn't bad as playing blinders actually goes. I have never seen what people think they see in the bloke, he's just too thick to exist really.

Because we don't need him, let someone else take the waste of space.

That's because a company has, in theory, no right to impound your time with their affairs. Obviously there are plenty who do work in their own time but it's illegal for your employer to impede on you in after hours.

Pickford's still done pretty well today though.

I think Garcia turned us down, couldn't say about De Boer.

Probably not, must have an African trip planned next week surely, might as well get off early and beat the bank holiday rush.

I remember him at Lyon, pretty often unavailable even in soft, airy fairy, girlslike football. Plus he really isn't all that good. Versatile perhaps but only at a certain level.

Out until February at least apparently. Didn't trust him in the first place, stupid move on our part just to please Claude.

7 What is off?