Results tagged “action-man deserter” from Birmingham Mail - Warwickshire Cricket Blog

In 1888, after a year of very poor financal performance, Warwickshire trimmed costs by ceasing to provide lunch for the professional players. Is this not a move that the county should seriously consider in 2008?
If not a complete abolition of lunch, perhaps an incentive-based system whereby a player is allocated an amount of nosebag relevant to the amount of runs/wickets he has secured.

I can vouch for the fact that avoidance of an empty tum is a great spur to work harder. When I was little I had to do the chores (sweep the chimney, scour the cooker, remove the dead rats from the outside lavatory and sandpaper the cat) before I was given even a few scraps.

I came from a poor family, you see. One year things were so tight that mum and dad gave me an empty box for Christmas and told me it was an action-man deserter.