Apart from my morning swim I must confess that my, er, participation in sporting activities is confined to the depths of my armchair where, with the sort of stamina that would be the envy of any so-called 'hearty', I manage to operate the 'do-flicker-thingie' in order to switch between channels, usually from Ladies' Beach Ball to Ladies' Wrestling and back again. My prowess at this exhausting activity is renowned!
Thus, I am more than well-qualified to offer some advice to the rulers of our two main sports - football and cricket. The performance of our national teams in these two sporting disciplines has been dismal beyond belief, in fact, so loud and emotional is the wailing and gnashing of teeth that I am no longer able to listen to 'TOOOOOORKSPOOOOOORT'. Clearly, something must be done and so I am proud that this sporting blog has a simple solution: let the English cricket team play football and the English football team play cricket!
Oh, come on, they couldn't be any worse, could they?
About that swim: Is 'your' pool chlorinated, hyperoxygenated or saline? The chlorine machine has malfunctioned twice in three weeks, possibly because it is operated by people who should have their mommies there to supervise, but maybe that's just late middle aged grumpiness, exacerbated by not getting to swim after I rolled out of bed at 04:50. I have used a hyper0 pool, and it was quite nice, and the saline pool was not nearly as salty as the Gulf of Mexico. I don't know how expensive it would be to retrofit, but something that is a noxious as chlorine and doesn't work when I want it to work, is a candidate for replacement.
"Just keep swimming, swimming"--Dory the Fish
Posted by: Michael Adams | Saturday, 23 November 2013 at 17:23