Darren Gough

[FatboyTim]

Set to announce his retirement today

 

[CHAPPERS]

Cripple, lost a bit of pace since his injury and that was that.

 

[Sussex on Leith]

Where have you seen this FatboyTim?

 

[FatboyTim]

Where have you seen this FatboyTim?

I keep my ear to the ground!


It's just a rumour at the mo, though the word "expected" was used.

 

[CHAPPERS]

I keep my ear to the ground!

Who do you work above?

 

[FatboyTim]

Who do you work above?

Remember that interview at the Beeb? .....

 

[Raphael Meade]

fatboy tim has the inside knowlarge going on..

 

[CHAPPERS]

Thought as much mate....

 

[tedebear]

personally have thought Goughy a bit beyond it recently......fair dues to him though...

 

[Sussex on Leith]

What a legend though. I was at the MCG in '98 when he yorked the last man to win us the Test and just stood in the middle with his arms aloft, like Stuart Pearce after scoring a free kick.

 

[Seagull over NZ]

I too was there at the MCG - don't remember him doing that but he got the last 2 wickets after Dean Headley bowled a mammoth spell.

More memorable for me was the hat-trick he got at the SCG a week or so later - truly 3 of the best balls bowled, they were wasted on the Aussie tail enders.

One of the great tributes to Gough (even though full of arrogance and offence) is that the Aussies used to say he could have been Australian such was his spirit etc.

 

[tedebear]

is that the Aussies used to say he could have been Australian such was his spirit etc.

I was going to say that but coming from an Aussie it sounds a bit gloating

 

[Seagull over NZ]

Exactly Tedebear - its a hugely offensive comment in that it suggests that someone English can't be that good.

I shall ignore the fact that it is a pretty accurate comment though........

 

[CHAPPERS]

He couldn't have been an Aussie cricketer, he's not a stuck up arrogant prick.


(Did I say that out loud?)

 

[tedebear]

oh you can do better than that chapper smurf!!

 

[Sussex on Leith]

He couldn't have been an Aussie cricketer, he's not a stuck up arrogant prick.

Hang on Chappers, Richie Benaud was an Aussie cricketer, and he's the world's wisest man.

(With Humphrey Lyttleton running a close second.)

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Be sad to see him go but IMHO Goughie was overrated. He was nearly aways bloody expensive and has taken less wickets than Caddick

 

[CHAPPERS]

Hang on Chappers, Richie Benaud was an Aussie cricketer, and he's the world's wisest man.

There's ALWAYS an exception to the rule.

 

[FatboyTim]

NEWSFLASH

He hasn't retired, he's left Yorkshire for "Family" reasons and hopes to continue first class cricket elsewhere....

 

[CHAPPERS]

Come to Sussex, Dazza, you know it makes sense.

Gough, Akram, Kirtley, Lewry, Martin Jenkins and Mushy?