Monday
Splendid weekend ignoring the world, concentrating on sport instead.
Spurs got the season off to a flyer with a 0-2 win at Fratton Park thanks to an Andy Griffin own goal and a cracker from Jermain Defoe. Having been a Spurs fan for more than 30 years, I’m not allowing myself to get too excited.
England need 10 wickets today to take a 2-1 lead in the Ashes. Simon Jones was the man on Saturday with 6/53 giving England the comfort of a 142 run first innings lead. Only Warne put up a fight with 90, before becoming Jones’ fourth victim. Andrew Strauss then scored a cracking 106 yesterday allowing a declaration to be made late in the afternoon. McGrath, wicketless in the first innings took 5/115 in the second, where it was Warne’s turn to toil without reward. The most notable feature of the day was that for the first time in years, Australia really looked ragged. They dropped catches, allowed boundaries – tempers looked frayed backing up rumours of a stand-up row between Warne and Ponting at Edgbaston. A few early wickets today will show if they still have the character which has made them so invincible for so long. Let us hope not.
An early and brief read through the papers turns up this story from The Independent. This year is the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, when religious extremists tried to blow up Parliament. In another show of ‘not letting the terrorists change anything’ officials at Parliament have abandoned their own plans for a memorial fireworks show, and ITV have dropped their planned show which would have featured a life-sized replica of Parliament full of crash test dummies, being blown up. I cannot see the poor taste in that, can you? The people of York have more courage and are pushing ahead with their plans to commemorate one of their more famous sons. A three month festival begins today which will look at all aspects of the plot from its secretive inception, through to its ultimate discovery. What Guy Fawkes failed to do with gunpowder, Bliar has managed to do through stealth and an apathetic population. Parliament has been neutered (given only 6 hours to debate invading Iraq for example) and all power now rests at Number 10. Are there any old cellars under Downing Street?
Spurs got the season off to a flyer with a 0-2 win at Fratton Park thanks to an Andy Griffin own goal and a cracker from Jermain Defoe. Having been a Spurs fan for more than 30 years, I’m not allowing myself to get too excited.
England need 10 wickets today to take a 2-1 lead in the Ashes. Simon Jones was the man on Saturday with 6/53 giving England the comfort of a 142 run first innings lead. Only Warne put up a fight with 90, before becoming Jones’ fourth victim. Andrew Strauss then scored a cracking 106 yesterday allowing a declaration to be made late in the afternoon. McGrath, wicketless in the first innings took 5/115 in the second, where it was Warne’s turn to toil without reward. The most notable feature of the day was that for the first time in years, Australia really looked ragged. They dropped catches, allowed boundaries – tempers looked frayed backing up rumours of a stand-up row between Warne and Ponting at Edgbaston. A few early wickets today will show if they still have the character which has made them so invincible for so long. Let us hope not.
An early and brief read through the papers turns up this story from The Independent. This year is the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, when religious extremists tried to blow up Parliament. In another show of ‘not letting the terrorists change anything’ officials at Parliament have abandoned their own plans for a memorial fireworks show, and ITV have dropped their planned show which would have featured a life-sized replica of Parliament full of crash test dummies, being blown up. I cannot see the poor taste in that, can you? The people of York have more courage and are pushing ahead with their plans to commemorate one of their more famous sons. A three month festival begins today which will look at all aspects of the plot from its secretive inception, through to its ultimate discovery. What Guy Fawkes failed to do with gunpowder, Bliar has managed to do through stealth and an apathetic population. Parliament has been neutered (given only 6 hours to debate invading Iraq for example) and all power now rests at Number 10. Are there any old cellars under Downing Street?
posted by phylos @ 09:57
1 Comments:
As a son of York myself, I feel we should NOT be celebrating Mr Fawkes failure! Not untill he apologises and comes back from the dead to finish his work
No commitment that boy!
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