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  • "The fact is that once I was playing again I was automatically available for everything on the schedule and that meant Stanford. I make no apologies for that and, as for the suggestion that I should waive the fee or give it to charity, I don't see why I should be a special case."
    Steve Harmison feels strongly about suggestions that he came out of one-day retirement in order to play the Stanford Twenty20 for 20

    Sep 7, 2008

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    ‘Whoever dreamt it up should be shot’

    By Will 6 months ago, 6 Comments »

    The opening of Heathrow’s Terminal 5 must surely rank as Britain’s most calamitous PR cock-up since the Millennium Dome debacle nine years ago. There are now 15,000 (or 20,000 if you believe some reports) bags waiting to be delivered to disillusioned passengers here and abroad. What lovely holidays they must all be having.

    But fear not, because BA will reimburse those who are in need of a hotel by up to £100/night. Quite aside from the fact it’s generally accepted in the EU that airlines should not place a cap on accommodation reimbursement, it’s a public relations disaster. “Whoever dreamt it up should be shot,” said Chris Yates, an industry analyst, which was a welcome dose of honesty for once.

    And to think that London is hosting the 2012 Olympics. I am incredibly excited by the prospect of living in an Olympic city but, let’s face it: it’s all going to go horribly wrong, isn’t it?

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    Bunch of choking bottlers

    By Will last year, mid-September, 8 Comments »

    South Africa really are a most monumental, unabashed, incomparable Eddie[1] of winning bottlers ever conceived. You have to laugh, really. I’m assuming they’ve lost, having only just been informed by a surprisingly demure text message which read: the boks have done it again.

    Bless ‘em.

    [1] My suggestion for the collective noun of losers: an Eddie (the Eagle) of losers

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