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Loading ...Ricky Ponting says “Or is it really Michael Vaughan. I mean, he does refer to Michael Vaughan in the third person. It might be an actor pretending to be an injured Michael Vaughan. And really Michael Vaughan is fully fit and spending the summer in his secret lair inside a volcano developing plans to make sure that the we will be in trouble in the Ashes, and cackling manically whilst stroking a white cat. And Giles, Jones and Flintoff are with him. Can’t you see what they are doing?”
Vaughan comeback all but a “dream”
By Will 2 years ago, at the end of July Leave a comment on this post
Following on rather nicely from the ongoing debate about the apparent mind games England may or may not be playing, Michael Vaughan has today declared himself unlikely to play cricket again. If that is a psychological mind trick to thwart the Australians, then….well, it’s quite clearly not, is it? He is, for want of a better phrase, about as screwed as a pig with one leg hobbling into an abattoir.
“I have real hope I’ll get better”, Vaughan told the media after watching the Old Trafford Test between England and Pakistan. “I’ll do all the hard work and I believe there’ll be another day when Michael Vaughan takes the field in an England cricket shirt. But I have to be realistic. I’ve read I might never play cricket again, and that might well turn out to be the case.
“Is there any chance I might be ready for Melbourne or Sydney? Probably not, but I’m going to hang on to that dream.”
More worrying even than his injury is the realisation he has now started talking in the third person. Full story at Cricinfo.
Tags: ashes, injury, michael-vaughan, the-ashes |
4 Responses to “Vaughan comeback all but a “dream””
July 30th, 2006 at 2.50 pm
July 31st, 2006 at 2.54 am
I think you are distorting what he said, Will. He said it was a “dream” to be fit for the Ashes, not a dream to come back at all. He said it was a possibility that he might not play again, not that it was unlikely he would play again. The guy is clearly down about being out for so long — and he’s clearly been depressed by reading every Tom, Dick and Harry journalist saying he’s done for. Which is hardly surprising. And personally, I don’t care how he refers to himself — it’s his cricketing and leadership abilities I admire him for, not his witty turn of phrase. There are plenty of people with a witty turn of phrase who seem to think it a good idea to kick a man when he’s down.
July 31st, 2006 at 8.41 am
Stop taking it, and me, so bloody seriously Kathy!
July 31st, 2006 at 9.03 am
He’s a long way to go yet to really master the art of talking about yourself in the third person. Here’s a personal favourite:
“The TV, the music, the fashion — it all goes to make up Rio Ferdinand” - Rio Ferdinand.
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