There are people who put their own dismal prejudices, their half-baked colonial chippiness and their enjoyment of the agreeable futilities of sport ahead of these terrible things.
Simon Barnes quote The boats are streamlined, advertisement splattered, potential coffins, and are controlled on a knife-edge balance of courage and sense.
Simon Barnes quote The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed.
Simon Barnes quote ...an innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005]
Simon Barnes quote Biography
Journalist with The Times
