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Modern batsmen don’t know they’re born
Robert Henderson The absurdly early start (the first week in April) to the English first class cricket season has brought a wailing and gnashing of teeth from batsmen. Pace bowlers have been ruling the roost and wickets have been averaging … Continue reading
Is it in the blood? and the hypocrisy of the media
The death of the great England all-rounder Trevor Bailey prompts me to take down and dust off a classic example of the discrepancy between what mainstream mediafolk privately believe and their public obeisance to political correctness. In 1991 I wrote … Continue reading
A fundamental malaise
I had this piece published in Wisden Cricket Monthly in 1991. The situation has not changed substantially. The re-entry of South Africa to Test cricket has removed the excuse for South Africans to play for England but this has in … Continue reading
English education and the great grade inflation fraud
English education has suffered greatly from its politicisation in the liberal internationalist interest, but even more fundamental damage was done by progressive teaching methods which failed to provide many children with an adequate grasp the three ‘Rs’ (and left a depressing number … Continue reading
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It isn’t “just sport”
Sport has a particular importance to England at present because sporting sides are the only source of national focus the English have. The English are denied a parliament, they are betrayed by their political elite who shudder at the idea … Continue reading
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Why was England in the sporting vanguard?
Why did England invent so many games and show such an appetite for them as players, spectators and administrators that modern sport became possible? Industrialisation undoubtedly provided the opportunity for modern spectator sports by moving England early from a predominantly … Continue reading
Football – the world game
Football is the nearest there is to a world game. There are easy reasons for this. At its most basic football is a game which requires the most rudimentary of equipment, a ball. Its rules are simple compared with those of other games … Continue reading
The English sporting amateur
Top class sport is now so tied to money that it may seem quaint to his generation that for all of the nineteenth century and much of twentieth century the amateur played a major role in many of the more … Continue reading
Cricket – the first modern game
Cricket was the first team game to be a great spectator sport, indeed, one might argue that it was the first great spectator game of any sort as opposed to a sport such as horse-racing, running, boxing or the more … Continue reading
The mother of modern sport
“We [the Coca Cola Championship] are the fourth best supported division in Europe with nearly 10 million fans last season, after the Premiership [12.88 million], Bundesliga [11.57 million] and La Liga [10.92]. We are ahead of Seria A.” Lord Mahwinny, Chairman of the … Continue reading
