A View Of The Terrace

Michael Henderson

This edition is for paid subscribers so please consider a £60 subscription. It is worth it for Michael’s thoughts on the passion of spectators and my (slightly) churlish piece in which I point out that Mooen Ali is, sad to say, comfortably the worst bowler ever to take 200 Test wickets.

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I have song a to sing, O!’ 

‘Sing me your song, O!’ 

‘It’s a song of a dump 

On a city’s rump, 

Where the natives do no wrong, O!’ 

Or so it seems. The colour writers in the nationals, taking up positions on the western terrace at Headingley like reporters in some war-torn city, have set garlands upon the brows of the chaps and chapesses who have, we are encouraged to believe, turned a field in Leeds into a house of fun.