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    Trafalgar Square victory parade for England’s cricketers

    By Will 3 years ago, mid-September Leave a comment on this post

    15.02 They’re now at Lord’s, or will be soon. Photos from the event will be posted here

    14.35 They’re off to Lord’s for the official ceremony, watched by about 15 people so it looks. They’re currently talking to Tony Blair, for their sins, and will make their way to Lord’s to hand over the Urn and receive the ugly glass trophy. Keep getting emails from you asking about the Urn: it’s not the real urn, it’s a replica. The real one is safely housed in the Lord’s museum.

    14:32 So much for my 300,000 prediction! More like 25,000 say police…

    13:16 Celebrations continue, Jerusalem ringing out and every other song you can think of! The players were all interviewed by David Gower and Mark Nicholas, then the Barmy Army leader (spokesman?!) got their anthem going, with all the players joining in. This is awesome. And I hear they’re off to meet Tony and Liz! Good old Liz

    12:21 The noise is incredible! Must be 300,000 people packed into Trafalgar Square, and the bus has finally arrived there. Chorus of “Ing-ger-land” ringing out, interviews by Gower and Nicholas soon. Never seen anything like this, bloody amazing. Unnecessary jingoism or deserved celebrations? Deserved, says I…

    12:12 I dunno how many people are there, but there must be hundreds of thousands? Flipping brilliant. I think this parade in itself could magnetise a few more fans to the great game! Fred looks absolutely mullered, and is still drinking; what a champion, what a drinking inspiration!

    Open-top bus tour, thousands of people lining the streets to see the winning England team. Amazing scenes, quite amazing. This is just not cricket! But, brilliantly, it now is cricket - let’s hope cricket can really embrace the success of their national team, and not fuck mess things up like Rugby Union arguably did after winning the World Cup.

    I’m confident they won’t. Anyway, let’s just enjoy the bus-tour and the success!! I’ll keep this updated with anything interesting

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    7 Responses to “Trafalgar Square victory parade for England’s cricketers”

  • Robert wrote:
    September 13th, 2005 at 12.42 pm

    A great day for English cricket. Enjoy it. I don’t think for a second that Australia have become a bad team. They have however been taken down a peg. Well again full credit to the England team.

  • mark wrote:
    September 13th, 2005 at 1.46 pm

    Freddie, what a man. Not only a cricketing legend but on last night’s/today’s evidence a drinking legend as well. Listening on 5 Live and he sounded absolutely shit-faced.. “..behind these glasses is a thousand stories..!” haha.
    I read they had to pull him out of the bar at 7:35 this morning..
    Quality. Wish I was there.

  • Wraye wrote:
    September 13th, 2005 at 1.59 pm

    Nah, Fred left the bar at 5.30 and went onto a champagne breakfast at 7.30. Good on ‘im. I love him. Just hope Raechel has some black coffee on the bus before he gets to Liz!

    I watched the paprade on the live BBC video coverage and it was truly awesome. I have never ever seen anything like this for the greatest game on earth.

    Last comment - so Freddie is well pissed. The lad has transformed his entire life for cricket. The past few years, he has struggled and given himself 100% to the game, settled down, wife and baby. And he really has performed like a hero for this series. This must be one of the greatest moments in his life.

    If Fred wants a drink, give ‘im a drink! Gonna have a few myself tonight.

    So I certainly hope there will be no critism of King Freddie.later.

  • mark wrote:
    September 13th, 2005 at 2.03 pm

    Wraye: I hope you realise my post was expressing admiration and not criticism!

  • Will wrote:
    September 13th, 2005 at 2.38 pm

    Admiration for a drinking legend! Loving that…

  • akr wrote:
    September 13th, 2005 at 4.49 pm

    admiration indeed! hope you’re drinking tonight mirrors this inspiration, Will! would be an insult to this fantastic young chap if you didnt!

  • Wraye wrote:
    September 14th, 2005 at 2.19 pm

    sorry to be misunderstood by you guys - absolutely no offence meant there. But there is bound to be a cold-hearted evil-minded busibody out there who might dare to say something. Gag ‘em, I say!

    By the way, for those who don’t know. The little lad in the blue shirt at the front of the bus was Gary Pratt. Bless. How fantastic to have him there! Sums up the team spirit.

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