ANGELS: Major League

Two of my favourites:
Glenn McGrath (legendary Aussie fast bowler) to Eddo Brandes (rotund Zimbabwean batsman)

“oi Eddo, why are you so f___ing fat?”
“Because every time I f**k your wife she gives me a biscuit”

Merv Hughes (Aussie bowler) to Viv Richards after he’d swung and missed a few times in a row – “It’s the small, round red thing, weighst about 5 1/2 ounces, you’re supposed to hit it”. Richards smacked the next ball straight over the bowler’s head – “you know what it looks like, now go and fetch it”

And the reason it’s called ‘Sledging’… it came from the mid-sixties and a guy called Graham Calling, who used to open the bowling for New South Wales and Australia… apparently the suggestion was that this guy’s wife was having an affair with another team-mate, and when he came into bat the entire fielding team started singing When a Man Loves A Woman, the old Percy Sledge number

If so, I’m pissed. I sat here for over an hour, looking at the game photos, trying to think of a theme. It wasn’t until my wife got up and suggested Major League.

And then she gave me the “Duh-face”.