The Lionesses.

[Andy_Faber]

Well you’ve successfully hijacked the thread you disapproved of, GP...and as for ‘ESN’...it stands for Educationally Sub Normal...a term we did away with in the late seventies as it was considered insulting to children with learning difficulties and their parents alike. Those children with greater difficulties were referred to as SSN...I’ll leave you to ponder on that one, but let’s just say the sixties and the seventies seemed particularly lacking in compassion as far as the less fortunate were concerned.

As for the ‘100’ advert...I’ll agree that it’s a great example of ‘dumbing down’, but then we seem to live in a world where infantile levels of instant gratification appear to be ever the new normal. At the risk of ‘cross threading’, which you’ve already done so can hardly criticise me for, if you doubt my comments about any of the above you only have to listen to Liz Truss and remember who she and Little Rishi will be addressing for the next month...the 200k Tory Party faithful who are more welcoming of tax cuts and public sector pay cuts than addressing climate change or the cost of living crisis. Quite terrifying really and ‘lioness’ she certainly isn’t.

P.S. I don’t actually have a problem with the ‘100’. Strange alliances I know but not so different from T20 and although I prefer Test and 50 over cricket nobody makes you watch it.

You’ve done it again rA, I repeat my earlier comment ‘you just can’t help yourself’

[ramAnag]

You’ve done it again rA, I repeat my earlier comment ‘you just can’t help yourself’

If you read the thread I did it quite deliberately AF seeing as the thread had been dragged all over the place and ended up being sent (not by me) in the direction of the ‘100’ and people’s apparent stupidity via the use of long outdated, and offensive, terms such as ESN.

So...I can help myself but chose not to on this occasion...and as it happens I share most of your opinions on the women’s game but suspect that, contrary to MA’s hopes, the women’s game will learn more bad habits from the men than vice versa.