I've twigged. Very clever. You've given clues to the whole lines rather than just the rhyme and I wouldn't have got it without the reference in the middle to Sussex's director of cricket. :ROFLMAO:
Before Igor's condemned, do we know whether his comments were made in Portuguese and have been translated into words he didn't necessarily mean? We've heard a lot of 'deserves to play at the highest level' type comments about players in the past which we all knew just meant 'deserves the wage...
Yes, that's another great Squeeze one. He's very underrated as a lyricist.
In 'Labelled With Love' he wrote 'The postman delivers the final reminders, she sells off the silver and poodles in china'. I'd never seen a china poodle at that time and thought that 'poodles' was a verb meaning...