Posts by Dan Slevin
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Oh dear, are there others whose spritual home is Upton Park? We must be strong for one another, these will be testing times.
The Zamora goal against Everton is on You Tube and provides sustenance.Is it more than coincidence to find so many other Hammers here? A matter of taste, or something else?
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I was in Auckland last week for the semi and wasn't going to miss it for the world. None of my Auckland chums have Sky and the pubs were shut at midnight for Anzac Day so pal Jeremy and I rented a motel room.
The poor Korean woman running the joint was a little bemused by our request not to check the beds but to test the Sky Sports reception.
Sky themselves did nothing to help build up to the 2.30 start by scheduling 4-wheel-drive motorsport.
I wasn't that unhappy with the performance until McCullum's pathetic effort and I sympathised with Jeremy when he said "Can we actually do this?" while Franklin and Patel were hitting.
In the end there was always daylight between the top two and the rest and the fact we can beat Aus and Sri Lanka 3 times out of every 10 doesn't make us good enough to be finalists.
But I wouldn't have called us Black Craps, Hamish.
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Is it possible that a NZ v Aus final would have Taufel as an Umpire at Vettori's end?
He's the first umpire to actually realise (as the rest of us have known for years ) that Vettori can turn it just enough so that a full-ish ball pitching on off would straighten to hit half way up middle and leg to a joker sweeping.
Perhaps Taufel can put the word out to his colleagues.
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Hamish, this is absolutely terrific writing, mate.