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] Date Posted: 01:40:59 12/08/04 Wed In reply to: Ed Harris (Venezia) 's message, "Nah" on 23:48:36 12/07/04 Tue hockey is very difficult to play on ice...i haven't skated on ice since i was a young child, but i remember trying to play and it was quite hard...as for rugby being a recent trend in Canada....i guess it depends on what you think is recent...my school was established in 1960, and they've been playing since then i believe, and a private rugby club across the street has been around even longer...also, in Victoria(where I live) cricket is fairly popular, mainly among older people, but a fair bit of younger people play as well at the local cricket pitch...we had a tournament here last summer for amateur team, it was pretty neat...i remember being a young boy and going to the pitch with my Granddad and watching they cricket matches...i found it boring then, but its fairly fun to watch now [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 01:52:54 12/08/04 Wed Cricket is an odd creature. However much we colonials may play it, I don't believe that we can really understand it until we see it in its original context. I remember, when I was a young lad, getting to know this weird, green and chilly new country, I was taken out of London to the countryside by my parents, and after a long walk we found a village with a pub in it. Opposite the pub was the village green, and as we sipped cider outside a sixteenth century pub and day turned into dusk, the amateur cricketers played on the green: significantly, without even bothering to keep the score - tournament didn't enter into it. When it was too dark to play on they drew stumps and came across to the pub for some Scrumpy and Winkle's Old Peculiar in their grass-stained Whites and smoked pipes. Cricket in RSA just isn't like that - we care who wins. I think that this was the moment when I fell in love with Britain. To quote the bloke, "England, with all thy faults I love thee still." [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |