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Day Sixteen
Garry and Mark are called to the diary room to discuss their shopping list. Big Transfer informs them that they shouldn’t expect Samuel to arrive in the next delivery, as he was demanding half the £30m transfer fee for himself and it was causing problems. “This is ridiculous!” splutters Garry. [...]
Weren’t England fans just a little excited that we were 190-0, two men powering towards centuries at the home of cricket with an Australian quick bowler out of sorts and a spinner incapacitated? Was this the beginning of the turnaround which had seemed beyond improbable on Sunday? Well, if it wasn’t, it certainly felt like it.
Unfortunately, [...]
Sometimes it feels as if the broadsheets are slow to the biggest transfer rumours. With an eagerness to verify sources, be sure of themselves and all other such good practice, they might be right more often than the tabloids in general, but they also fall prey to producing news stories after they’ve been reported elsewhere.
Still, this [...]
