A Nation Rejoices....

I realise the vast majority of people reading this won't give a flying fuck... but YEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE'VE DONE IT AT LAST!!!!!! 18 years of disappointment finally overturned with a magnificent draw in the final game. We win the series 2-1 and BRING THE ASHES HOME!!!!!!

I was trying to update the site earlier, but I think 56 million nervous Englanders sitting at work hitting 'refresh' crashed the internet. I managed to get home for the denouement, and have since been contentedly glugging a nice red wine, skipping around the lounge, dancing around whilst doing the washing up, and generally grinning from ear to ear.



This has been 7 weeks of the most incredible drama and excitement you could imagine... until even at lunchtime today there was no way of knowing who was taking home the miniature urn. Shane Warne was at his imperious best, and only a truly unbelievable innings by Kevin Pieterson meant safety for England. 7 sixes!? In an innings that important? How magnificent. Oh to have been there. Ashley Giles once again the unsung hero - hanging in there when wickets were falling - as he did at Trent Bridge in the Fourth Test. What a man! King of Sp(a)in? King of Fucking Europe!!!



The Aussies did their best to ruin the victory for us, by actually proving to be not only ferocious competitors, but gallant and dignified losers. What happened there? That's not the Australian cricket team I know and 'love'.

Shane Warne is surely some kind of mutant superbeing. To get his best ever Ashes figures in his last time in England? Amazing. Considering how much he has tormented us these last 15 years, the ovation he received at the end was astonishing. The man is a genius. 'The Heroic Brett Lee' (as he will henceforth be known), firing in his most ferocious deliveries of the series even once the game was lost? Battling through what must have been crushing disappointment. Gilchrist's incredible catch.

But this was England's day. And month. Cricket fever is everywhere. This series has opened people's eyes to the possiblities of sport. Statues of both teams should be erected in Trafalgar Square forthwith, with Freddie Flintoff replacing Nelson on the column. We have ourselves some new Lions.

I can't believe it's all over. What are we going to do with ourselves now? Other than record the series highlights on Saturday and watch them again and again...

...and listen to this for the 50th time today!!!!!

LOUIE BEGA - MAMBO #5


Oh shit, I'm dancing again......