The Matrix
Just watched "The Matrix". Now I do have trouble with plots but this was the first time I've got through an entire film, from first scene to last, and never had a bleedin' clue what was going on.
A colleague of mine, meanwhile, reports that he took his son to see Northamptonshire v Worcestershire in the Twenty20 last week and his boy went up to Monty Panesar and asked for his autograph. The little 'un was rebuffed. Panesar reacted with similar disdain to several boys when Warwickshire visited Northampton in the FPL earlier this season. Just who does he think he is?
Fair play to Warwickshire. As I departed Campbell Park last Thursday, Ashley Giles was doing the honours for a sizeable knot of autograph-hunters and the Bears' players are very good in that way.
Personally, I'd revoke Panesar's lucrative central contract (Don't suppose he had any problems with signing that!).
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I once saw David Gower on a cold grey day at Fenner's spend an hour signing autographs for children as word got around he was there. That's class.
Shane Warne on leaving through the players entrance at Edgbaston saw a crowd of younsters patiently waiting and to his credit he asked them politely to "wait in an orderly fashion and I will sign rhem all", and he did it took him 20 mins. I was very impressed.
So not only a truly stupid dance when he takes a wicket - which doesn't happen as often as it should - and now he doesn't sign autographs.
Sadly it appears Monty has become a victim of his own hype.
One day people will stop asking - and then he'll have a problem.
I saw Keith Fletcher rebuff an autograph hunter when Essex played at edgbaston in 1988.
And believe you me, he's never forgotten it.
Just noticed this - very poor show.
I find him immensely irritating - the fact that he appears to have no cricketing brain is probably part of the reason, but that stupid dance whenever he takes a (rare) wicket is probably the main thing.
Still, I bet he'll sign autographs when he's playing club cricket in a couple of years. And no Chris Schofield style comeback for old Monty...
Yes, Ian, he's hard a person to feel sorry for.
The other thing that really made me laugh about him was when the BBC website recently had a video on the cricket page called "Monty Panesar on how to spin a ball" - I had visions of a tired crew waiting until take 356 before he managed to get a ball to deviate.