[SOC] Desecration

[David Lockwood]

Krikkit was actually invented in the People's Free Republic of Yorkshire
for exactly the same reason.

Bestist 72+! and 54 anna bit

Dave G4CLI

On 4 September 2012 08:17, Ian C. Purdie <ianpurdie at integritynet.com.au>wrote:

> David Evans wrote:
> > Now I'm provoked
> >
> > Crikit is the game the Brits invented so that the rest of the world
> could beat us at it - just like football (Soccer for those in the US).
>
> Fair suck of the Sav David [Saveloy for those not in the know]. Don't we
> all just take turns beating one another?
> >
> > Perhaps the USA might take it up (Cricket) and add to our misery!  After
> all it is no more esoteric than Baseball.
>
> Well there used to be a cricket team, mostly comprising ex-pats though.
>
> With football [not soccer], years ago they used to annually field a
> competitive team in the very entertaining Rugby League "Coca Cola
> Sevens" competition.
>
> That was a season curtain raiser held over a weekend but once money
> entered the game, Sydney coaches would only field third graders rather
> than risk their "stars" suffering injury.
>
> I always used to put my hard earned down on one of the Pacific Island
> teams. To them it's not a game but a religion.
>
> Teams [seven a side] from all around the world, playing two halves of
> ten minutes at a frenetic pace over a Saturday and Sunday.
>
> Immensely entertaining and the venue always sold out three months ahead,
> everyone else settled down for almost non-stop football broadcast on TV
> from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
>
> Money ruined it like everything.
>
>
> Thanks! :) 72/73's
>
> Ian C. Purdie
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