Pat Murphy: Rejoice! Don't Pity Windies ; Some of the Grace and Subtlety of the Game Disappeared for Good When the West Indies Finessed the Prototype for Success in Modern International Cricket
Birmingham Post › April 06, 2004
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There are only two caveats for me as millions of English fans bask in the pleasure of the hammering handed out to the West Indies cricketers. The posturing of those Barmy Army ninnies out there and the suggestion that we ought to feel sorry for the opposition.
What a symbiosis exists between Sky Sports and the Barmy Army! They deserve each other, as the all-pervasive television cameras pick out the latest bunch of show-offs, beer bellies quivering, rum punches spilling out of plastic beakers, blissfully unaware that, as they try to dance to the deafening music on the tannoy, they have the co-ordination and rhythm of your Dad at his most embarrassing when your sister got married.See the full content of this document
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Pat Murphy: Rejoice! Don't Pity Windies ; Some of the Grace and Subtlety of the Game Disappeared for Good When the West Indies Finessed the Prototype for Success in Modern International Cricket
Without the ready complicity of Sky Sports, the Barmy Army wouldn't exist. Thousands of genuine England cricket-lovers have travelled the world in the past decade, yet the cameras never seem interested in them as they sit watching the play with rapt attention, applauding excellence from either side.
They don't draw attention to themselves with moron...See the full content of this document
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