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Wetsuit cricket fan
3 years ago, mid-SeptemberFunny photo of a suit at the Trafalgar Square celebrations. Was he pushed?!
Trafalgar Square victory parade for England’s cricketers
3 years ago, mid-September15.02 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
Photos of England’s Ashes parade in Trafalgar Square
3 years ago, mid-Septembercowfish has got some great photos from England’s Ashes parade in Trafalgar Square today.
England on the bus
Office workers trying to grab a glimpse
A packed-out London
And a brilliant panoramic view of the crowd (best viewed large)
And some from Matt
Wives look on
Fans cool down in the fountain
From James comes this shot of the crowd
Ben has a whole bunch of Bus photos
Goes without saying that if you have any you want to share, send them in…
Trafalgar Square victory parade
3 years ago, at the start of SeptemberUPDATE September 13 - the morning after. Live blogging here. England’s jubilant players are on an open-top bus tour around London. Quite amazing scenes, the like of which I don’t think (m)any of us thought we’d see. Awesome! Thousands and thousands of people lining the streets.
Originally posted September 6 2005
Oh God - it’s started already; an expectant nation, and capital city, is planning a victory parade for England if they win the Ashes. Bit of a hostage of fortune…It’ll be held at Trafalgar Square if England do, indeed, win back the urn. More at Cricinfo.
