Too. Much. Sport. Not three words we’d ever thought we’d ever write in succession but it’s been that sort of weekend with the Test series against the Kiwis to wrap up, the Canadian Grand Prix, Euro 2008 kicking off and half an ear to keep on the tennis too. First up then good news for Poland in the F1 and an extremely happy Mrs Spurt who immensely enjoyed Kubica’s maiden win, which made up for the 2-0 spanking from Germany shortly afterward. Alas poor Lewis, easy mistake to make, I mean it’s not as if red’s the universal colour for stop... oh wait
However chief victim Kimi Raikkonen didn’t exactly cover himself in glory either in a startling display of petulance , "I'm not angry but what Hamilton did was inexplicable. More, it was stupid." He’s right of course inexplicably smashing into the back of someone for no good reason is inexcusable, stupid even, an opinion no doubt shared by Force India’s Adrian Sutil. He at least had the good grace to keep his gob firmly in neutral, when Raikkonen managed that feat just one short race a go.
To the Test victory next and a comprehensive caning for the Kiwis with James ‘modesty forbids’ Anderson coming over all shy when named man of the match. “I just managed to get the ball in the right areas and they missed it, which was nice," he said.
Not. Really. Good. Enough. Clearly Anderson has made some great progress, but to really take it to the next level he has to work on one more vital area, to whit his nickname, which is a worryingly underwhelming ‘The Burnley Express’.
Now that is just not going to terrify the world’s leading batsmen and clearly coach Ottis Gibson has some work to do. ‘Whispering death’, ‘Big Bird’, ‘White Lightning’ ‘The Rawalpindi Express’ those are the kind of names to aim for and let’s hope young Jimmy has something suitably forbidding in place in time for the South African series.
Suggestions welcome in the comments field below. We’ll kick you off with Jimmy ‘one bad mo’fo’ Anderson.
Perhaps he could take a leaf out of Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand’s book, who’s in Nigeria to promote education through football and has been given the title of Chief Fiwagboola by King Akiolu.
Apparently it stands for 'character maketh wealth' rather than ‘attention deficit disorder’.
