An interesting email has come Brigg Blog's way from Australia, where former Sir John Nelthorpe School pupil Simon Church, the ex-Brigg Town batsman, suggests joining the Simon Church Fan Club on the Facebook social networking site.
Visit the said site and you discover it's about another well-known sporting star - Simon Church, the Wales footballer. And that our Simon Church has joined the network as a Friend. It looks like he's persuaded a few other mates in the Brigg area to join up, with names like Michael Kitchen and Billy Eaton appearing, along with our Simon's cousin Brian Markham (also a former Brigg cricketer).
Simon returned to Brigg for a visit last year, with his wife, and met up with a number of old mates during a cricket match at the Recreation Ground and a light drinking session (by old standards) at several hostelries afterwards.
Looks a happy chappie!
ReplyDeleteOver the last few years, why has the media got into the new routine (as Nige has done) of calling national teams - ie the Wales team, the Poland team?
Why have we stopped saying the Welsh team, the Russian team,the Spanish team, for example?
Perhaps in future we'll go all peculiar and say - Team England, or, Team Cricket Australia and even, Team Pool Red Lion !!
Signing off - Team Blogger Wrawby