A couple of humorous items in the press today

[Grimes]

A couple of hilarious snippets from today’s Mail On Sunday:

In a review by Max Davidson of a book called: You Cannot Be Serious! by Matthew Norman, Davidson writes:

"The Fuhrer earns inclusion for his decidedly sinister attitude to cricket. He apparently watched some English ex-pats playing cricket in Germany in 1923, asked to have the rules explained to him, then pronounced the game, ‘insufficiently violent for German fascists.’

As Norman remarks in a typically elegant aside: He was never a chap easily imagined daydreaming at deep fine leg or taking four hours to score 23 on a flat wicket."

Then this, from Piers Morgan’s Insider page in the LIVE supplement, which I had actually read before, as some of you may have:

"My favourite quote on pressure came from the late, great, Australian cricketing legend, Keith Miller, when asked if he was worried about going out to bat against England at Lord’s.

Miller, who had been a pilot in the war, smiled at the question. "Pressure? I’ll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your a***."

[john williams]

[Grimes]

I particularly liked the "day-dreaming at deep fine leg"! As I probably would have, if I’d ever made the fourth eleven.

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