World Cup Thread
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Been moved to Gerld hasn’t it?Why has it been locked? I’m sure lads have plenty more to say on the matter
Herberthall
Winger
Was thinking the same marra, still plenty to say.Why has it been locked? I’m sure lads have plenty more to say on the matter
hudson88
Striker
Why has it been locked? I’m sure lads have plenty more to say on the matter
Moved to gold mate
Herberthall
Winger
Wonder how Hales is feeling today?
Brett
Striker
Love this from the BBC
A golden hour ends in a champagne super over
England win the Cricket World Cup
Tom Fordyce
BBC chief sports writer at Lord's
On a grey Sunday evening the sun came out at Lord's and the golden hour came.
When you love sport, you understand how it can take you to places little else can. You could watch it all your life and never quite fathom what happened between 6.30 and 7.30pm in two sun-kissed rectangles of grass seven or so miles apart across England's capital city.
A World Cup final that might just be the greatest game of cricket in history, a Wimbledon men's final longer than any that has come before.
Because this was summer's sporting day of days, they stepped hand in hand. You couldn't watch and you couldn't look away. You hated it and you loved it and you lost yourself completely to it.
No-one had ever seen Lord's like this, a beautiful sedate museum turned into a cavorting mess. No-one had really seen cricket like this.
There is a line often brought out when sport does these sorts of things - you couldn't write this - and a hoary riposte: haven't you seen Star Wars, or read Harry Potter?
On a day when sometimes nothing appeared to make sense, both these contradictory positions became true. You couldn't write it, because it was a plotline too twisted to make dramatic sense, too confusing, too remote from what has gone before.
We're OK with spaceships and child wizards because they have been imagined before. Plenty had dreamed of England winning the World Cup. That's where logic waved farewell
A golden hour ends in a champagne super over
England win the Cricket World Cup
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Tom Fordyce
BBC chief sports writer at Lord's
On a grey Sunday evening the sun came out at Lord's and the golden hour came.
When you love sport, you understand how it can take you to places little else can. You could watch it all your life and never quite fathom what happened between 6.30 and 7.30pm in two sun-kissed rectangles of grass seven or so miles apart across England's capital city.
A World Cup final that might just be the greatest game of cricket in history, a Wimbledon men's final longer than any that has come before.
Because this was summer's sporting day of days, they stepped hand in hand. You couldn't watch and you couldn't look away. You hated it and you loved it and you lost yourself completely to it.
No-one had ever seen Lord's like this, a beautiful sedate museum turned into a cavorting mess. No-one had really seen cricket like this.
There is a line often brought out when sport does these sorts of things - you couldn't write this - and a hoary riposte: haven't you seen Star Wars, or read Harry Potter?
On a day when sometimes nothing appeared to make sense, both these contradictory positions became true. You couldn't write it, because it was a plotline too twisted to make dramatic sense, too confusing, too remote from what has gone before.
We're OK with spaceships and child wizards because they have been imagined before. Plenty had dreamed of England winning the World Cup. That's where logic waved farewell
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Some very bitter comments on twatter. "False win", "should be shared" etc etc ffs they are the rules, they are there in Black and white before we start!!
brandon
Striker
Aye so it seems - still plenty to say on the matter though surely. More than apt for it to be in the cricket forum for atleast another couple of days?!
We haven’t seen the pictures of the lads hungover to fuck on the open top bus yet
Tin Soldier
Striker
That **** Piers Morgan has spoiled it all by wearing his shirt and banging on about him being there in the box with his celebrity friends. Me Me Me Me Me Me and then England
brandon
Striker
Absolutely fantastic article.
Marcosplace
Striker
He has. England has a record of having the jester or village idiot .,.,That **** Piers Morgan has spoiled it all by wearing his shirt and banging on about him being there in the box with his celebrity friends. Me Me Me Me Me Me and then England
To be fair he’s a big cricket fan too.
Tin Soldier
Striker
Tidied
Chappers
Striker
They can all go and fuck off.Some very bitter comments on twatter. "False win", "should be shared" etc etc ffs they are the rules, they are there in Black and white before we start!!
Billy Batts
Striker
What a surprise. Despise that **** with a passion.That **** Piers Morgan has spoiled it all by wearing his shirt and banging on about him being there in the box with his celebrity friends. Me Me Me Me Me Me and then England
There's an argument to say it should have been 5 as they batsmen hadn't crossed when the throw was released from the fielder but the law is a bit ambiguous
Chappers
Striker
Just said on another thread. They must have crossed. Stokes isn't that quick. He couldn't have been where he was otherwise.
Imo as the camera of course didnt show it, i think as it was a blur
I’m sure I heard Martin Emerson on radio mag this morning saying he researched that last night and a six was correct.
