Contents
PROLOGUE: In the Nets
1 ‘Let Him Stew’
2 Rare Thing
3 ‘Dead Animals, Bloody Turds, Old Apples, Sponge Cakes . . .’
4 The Crumb-Eaters
5 ‘You’re the Fred Astaire of Cricket’
6 Hungry? ‘I’ve Had Twenty Malt Sandwiches’
7 The View From the Scrapheap
8 ‘Like the Biggest Neon Sign Up at Kings Cross’
9 His Right Knee
10 ‘Bacchus Is Being Absolutely Obnoxious’
11 God Was His Nickname
12 ‘Guys, I’m Going Into the Trenches for You’
13 ‘Gentlemen, Before You Go . . .’
14 The Bulldozer Theory
15 Cape Crusader
16 ‘I Just Remember the Shenanigans Up on the Tenth Floor’
EPILOGUE: Old Men in a Bar