Where would the rabbit be without Australian cricketers to love to hate? In this context, Brett Lee's announcement of his retirement from Test cricket is to be regretted and to be noted as was Shane Warne's retirement from first class cricket appropriately sent off with goodbye you fat bastard. Lee is a skinny bastard and was seriously fast - see below 7th February for him decking poor Alex Tudor. Lee and Warne bowling against Hoggard and Giles in the Trent Bridge Test of 2005 with the game, and the Ashes, in the balance was some of the most compulsive cricket I have ever seen. Goodbye you skinny bastard.
I read in one of the weekend papers that after a decade of boom and the Celtic Tiger, with the Irish economy in dire straits, Irish emigration has begun again bigtime, The Pogues and Thousands are Sailing came to mind. Here it is.
For good measure, here are the Pogues with Dirty Old Town. I saw them live way back in the early 90s. It was fun.
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cracking bowler. and allegedly a good chap. the image of flintoff consoling him during the ashes will remain with me a long time. mind you - i still can't believe freddie wasn't saying 'hard luck on getting stuffed, ya fecker!'
Just stopping in to say hello.
Hello.
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Didn't The Pogues do some music for the Sid & Nancy soundtrack?
The Pogues version of "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" never fails to make me well up.
SW - One of the all time sporting images, that. Shpould have used it for this post...
Little Flower - Likewise :D
JoJo - Yes - most of soundtrack is Pogues.
Unique - Yeah. That was another candidate for posting but i gotta ration myself ;0
You are blogrolled btw...
Lee will be missed but I'm afraid the Pogues leave me cold.
DHG - They are an acquired taste and of uneven quality - maybe the taste is better acquired after a large amount of Guinness ;)
DAMN. I love The Pogues. When Shane MacGowan was on David Letterman, he actually pulled a tooth out, because it was rotten, on national TV. How cool is that? Dave was predictably appalled. I loved it.
the pogues played here in my little town and it seemed as if everyone in the audience was singing along with them! it was the best time ever! xoxoxoo
(so what's the best thing to read about how cricket is played?)
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