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Flintoff 1 Football Nil

By Will 5 years ago, mid-September Add your comment below

Just seen on the box that Flintoff walked out on Maine Road (that’s a football ground I think – he didn’t stumble, drunkedly, onto a main road, although I imagine he probably did the other day) to watch his “beloved” Man City, and he received a massive standing ovation and applause.

Blinkin’ brilliant that is. I don’t know how many were at the game, but it’s terrific to see and hear these cricketers receiving the praise they deserve. Especially that bloody legend, Andrew Flintoff.

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4 Responses to “Flintoff 1 Football Nil”

  • Geoff wrote:
    September 18th, 2005 at 7.10 pm

    (It’s Maine Road – or was. They don’t play there anymore, they play at the City of Manchester or Eastlands stadium.)

    Regardless, the real reason I started typing was to ask – in light of this news, is Flintoff the new Amir Khan?

  • Will wrote:
    September 18th, 2005 at 8.00 pm

    Oops, thanks Geoff. In what respect is Flintoff the new Khan? The sense of “quickly into the limelight, even quicker out of it”?

  • Geoff wrote:
    September 18th, 2005 at 8.24 pm

    In the sense that Amir Khan was wheeled out at Bolton’s Reebok stadium several times following his Olympic silver medal, and Flintoff is no longer ‘the new Botham.’ I feel it isn’t right to talk about him without prefixing his name with ‘the new …’

  • David wrote:
    September 20th, 2005 at 9.53 am

    Interesting comments by Freddie about playing under Vaughan/Hussein today:
    http://usa.cricinfo.com/england/content/story/219651.html

    The stats are amazing:
    Batting under Hussain: 21.48 (1 100, 2 50s)
    Batting under Vaughan: 43.51 (4 100s, 15 50s)

    Bowling under Hussain: 48.65 (0 5wi)
    Bowling under Vaughan: 26.83 (2 5wi)
    [30 matches under Vaughan, 20 under Hussain, ignoring his first 2 tests under Stewart]

    The stats guru urls for the figures are:
    http://stats.cricinfo.com/guru?sdb=player;playerid=4271;class=testplayer;filter=advanced;team=0;opposition=0;notopposition=0;homeaway=0;continent=0;country=0;notcountry=0;groundid=0;season=0;startdefault=1998-07-23;start=1999-01-01;enddefault=2005-09-12;end=2003-07-30;tourneyid=0;finals=0;daynight=0;toss=0;scheduleddays=0;scheduledovers=0;innings=0;followon=0;result=0;seriesresult=0;captain=0;keeper=0;dnp=0;recent=;viewtype=aro_match;runslow=;runshigh=;batposition=0;dismissal=0;bowposition=0;ballslow=;ballshigh=;bpof=0;overslow=;overshigh=;conclow=;conchigh=;wicketslow=;wicketshigh=;dismissalslow=;dismissalshigh=;caughtlow=;caughthigh=;caughttype=0;stumpedlow=;stumpedhigh=;csearch=;submit=1;.cgifields=viewtype
    http://stats.cricinfo.com/guru?sdb=player;playerid=4271;class=testplayer;filter=advanced;team=0;opposition=0;notopposition=0;homeaway=0;continent=0;country=0;notcountry=0;groundid=0;season=0;startdefault=1998-07-23;start=2003-07-30;enddefault=2005-09-12;end=2005-09-12;tourneyid=0;finals=0;daynight=0;toss=0;scheduleddays=0;scheduledovers=0;innings=0;followon=0;result=0;seriesresult=0;captain=0;keeper=0;dnp=0;recent=;viewtype=aro_match;runslow=;runshigh=;batposition=0;dismissal=0;bowposition=0;ballslow=;ballshigh=;bpof=0;overslow=;overshigh=;conclow=;conchigh=;wicketslow=;wicketshigh=;dismissalslow=;dismissalshigh=;caughtlow=;caughthigh=;caughttype=0;stumpedlow=;stumpedhigh=;csearch=;submit=1;.cgifields=viewtype

    One of the things that made Brearley a great captain was his ability to get the most out of Botham … now that we’ve answered the ‘Is Flintoff the new Botham’, perhaps we should start asking ‘Is Vaughan the new Brearley’ (apart from the batting of course …)

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