And if you try it you'll like it
We went to watch the 4th Test Match between England and Australia at Trent Bridge in Nottingham today. It's an absolutely massive sporting occasion, with the two oldest adversaries in international sport standing toe-to-toe and slugging it for the Ashes with the series poised at 1-1.
Tickets were at an absolute premium, and the match sold out in summer last year. £50 tickets have been changing hands for around £450. It's an event that demands your full attention.
So we went dressed as the Spanish Inquisition....
Team photo - just before heading off to the ground (left to right, Jamie, Bob, Poll Star, Luke, ST & Statue John on the floor)
The banner.
Word.
Let's Go To Work
Statue John has a moment of quiet reflection.
Mein Host
Anyone know what the score was?
Tickets were at an absolute premium, and the match sold out in summer last year. £50 tickets have been changing hands for around £450. It's an event that demands your full attention.
So we went dressed as the Spanish Inquisition....
Team photo - just before heading off to the ground (left to right, Jamie, Bob, Poll Star, Luke, ST & Statue John on the floor)
The banner.
Word.
Let's Go To Work
Statue John has a moment of quiet reflection.
Mein HostAnyone know what the score was?
posted by swisslet @ 23:15
8 Comments:
At 5:12 am,
Michael said…
That is beautiful.
At 6:44 pm,
Jenni said…
I think I'm missing something, because I don't understand what is going on here.
At 9:12 pm,
Erika said…
Ha ha ha ha ha! That is bloody brilliant, man! No wonder the tv cameraperson picked you lot out of everyone in the crowd.
At 9:59 pm,
LB said…
you're all out of your f*cking tree.
it's supposed to be a nice game played by quiet young men dressed in white and watched whilst supping a pint of warm ale on the village green.
Young boys, jumpers for wickets (etc).
You're spoiling the spectacle with all this surrealistic fancy dress nonsense. It's difficult to take a great sporting institution like the Ashes seriously when every time someone was out today, all I saw in the background was some berk in a giant Tigger outfit...
At 10:33 pm,
swisslet said…
Tigger is an England Legend - and if you'd looked more closely, you would have seen that he was sitting next to the Pink Panther & Sylvester. They follow England home and away. I think one of them is a policeman.
It does lead to some surreal situations though.... I found myself (dressed as a cardinal) in the gents having a pee next to the pink panther, which isn't something that happens everyday.
It's a great game, and it was bloody brilliant today as well. 2-1 to England, but only just.....
ST
At 11:47 pm,
John McClure said…
And the King of Spain hit the winning runs.
You realise you're allienating your american fan base?
I watched all weekend and didn't see you once. Every time Gilo got involved, I was sure they'd show you, but if they did, I missed it. Great work all round (apart from the Karl Marx beards Scat you plank).
It's slightly worrying just how at home Statue Boy looks in that get-up.
Cardinal Richeleiu, your boys dished out a hell of a beating.
At 12:21 am,
LB said…
You couldnt miss the bloody Pink Panther (the rinky dink panther) today either.
And you were definitely on the telly. Not only a wide shot with the King of Spain banner but also a quite cool close up type one from the end of the row sometime on Saturday afternoon.
Oh, and I never thought I would ever read the sentence:
Tigger Is An England Legend.
At 3:08 am,
HistoryGeek said…
You are a VERY TALL MAN!
That said...I'm quite a fan of Tigger, but not because of any cricket association.
Post a Comment
<< Home