The Virtual Wisdener
No 33: March 7 2021. The Virtual Wisdener The Newsletter of the Wisden Collectors’ Club It seems my comments in the last VW It is wonderful that there is a ‘road map’ out of the current pandemic and were met with almost unanimous with the 2021 Wisden out next month and the English county season about to start, things are feeling posiPve and brighter. approval and a7er this mornings fourth My promise remains the same as it has been since last March -20% off all Test defeat (inside three days) I have come Wisdens (but not the 2021) unPl we are out of this. Click here to the conclusion that I could not care less to be asked. what happens to the England team - Unpatrioc, shameless, disgraceful - yes I know and so am I. This week the government announced an extra £300m of funding for sport and according to the ECB cricket I am fed up to the back teeth of excuse a<er excuse, was in line for a good slice of that, why?? bang collapse a<er bang collapse, bowlers who ‘lack confidence,’ and those who come home a<er two Cricket, sadly, is no longer the summer sport. Football hours of ‘really hard running around’ because they is a twelve month sport, Rugby League over the course need a rest - I am done with England. I will not be of a season aNracts more fans (when allowed) than cheering on any one who plays against England, nor cricket and Horse Racing, Formula 1 and Golf generate will I be sending back my passport (so unused it has more local revenue and each individual sport employs developed an inferiority complex) to Boris nor will I be more people, both directly and indirectly than the game of cricket…so why is cricket given extra funding? giving up on the cricket that maNers to me, county cricket, but England, no, good riddance, This is not simply about England failing to come to I am a Wisden man.
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