Friday 29 August 2008

Back of a length

OK, here goes then.

As threatened, our first trip through the archive takes us to July 2006, just a handful of hours before yet another very memorable cup-semi final against Engineering.

In the news there is yet more fear, ignorance, loathing and violence across the world - and none more so than when John Prescott confesses in the Daily Mirror to a 2 year affair with an 'aide'. On the sporting fields, Steve Harmison was about to destroy Pakistan at Old Trafford and everyone wanted to know exactly what Marco Materazzi had said to The Great Zidane.

UCLES* were just 10 on the day - Parikh, Wood, Spittle, Ordish, Hunter, Dagless, Wylie, Linsdell, Siyambalapitiya and Skipper Steve.

Your commentators are Richie Benaud and Tony Lewis...