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Post by KaiKai on Jan 11, 2011 20:45:58 GMT
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Post by pappasmurf on Jan 11, 2011 20:52:34 GMT
Yes....watched this episode last week on BBC2. Great series....for anoraks.  |
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Post by KaiKai on Jan 11, 2011 20:54:17 GMT
Lol, never watched it myself, saw it posted on Football Ground Guide forums  |
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Post by kdwyellow on Jan 11, 2011 20:55:39 GMT
Yes, I watched it too although the football thing is a bit of a loose tie if you ask me! The most puzzling part for me was how Portillo managed to get to Newmarket from Enfield before he got to Cambridge!
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Post by Jerry1971 on Jan 12, 2011 9:21:43 GMT
I must admit, I didn't watch it. But I do think that the importance of Parkers Piece to modern football is completely under estimated, and we really should, as a City, be making hay out of that. I wonder if 99.999% of the foreign students and visitors who kick footballs about constantly on the Piece have any idea at all of its significance?
Ditto those who play cricket there. Jack Hobbs, he whom the Pavilion now tragically used as a Thai restaurant was named after, learned his trade on that same patch of grass, and went on to play 61 tests for England.
We have a rich sporting history in Cambridge, trouble is, we don't shout about it. And that is one of the major problems CUFC has in garnering rich investors.
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Post by jasonhall on Jan 12, 2011 9:44:04 GMT
Sport doesn't fit in with what the City wants tourists to think when they go to Cambridge.
Shame as there are probably lots of other towns and cities with more tenuous links that are promoted.
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Post by woodypigeon on Jan 12, 2011 9:54:17 GMT
I was playing cricket on Parker's piece in the mid 1960's. The West Indies were playing at Fenners across the way. It was early evening, Rohan Kanhai and Gary Sobers were on their way back to the University Arms Hotel. They stopped to watch us for a few minutes. We were well chuffed. Sorry to hear about the Jack Hobbs pavillion.
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Post by Lepus europaeus on Jan 12, 2011 10:09:49 GMT
When I were a lad, I went to Fenner's almost as often as I visited the Abbey. You could see the best cricketers in the world there, as your story shows – they were either touring with their international sides or, sometimes, playing for the University.
Ah, the memories of those long summer holidays: filling in the scorecard as each wicket fell, clamouring around the pavilion for autographs, annoying the groundsman …
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Post by smiffo on Jan 12, 2011 10:24:16 GMT
It's not even a good Thai restuarant at that.
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Post by pct on Jan 12, 2011 10:32:04 GMT
Quite expensive as well IIRC.
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Post by pappasmurf on Jan 12, 2011 10:54:32 GMT
I must admit, I didn't watch it. But I do think that the importance of Parkers Piece to modern football is completely under estimated, and we really should, as a City, be making hay out of that. I wonder if 99.999% of the foreign students and visitors who kick footballs about constantly on the Piece have any idea at all of its significance? Ditto those who play cricket there. Jack Hobbs, he whom the Pavilion now tragically used as a Thai restaurant was named after, learned his trade on that same patch of grass, and went on to play 61 tests for England. We have a rich sporting history in Cambridge, trouble is, we don't shout about it. And that is one of the major problems CUFC has in garnering rich investors. I understand there is a plaque somewhere on Parkers Piece regarding the rules of the modern game....I have never found it. Cambridge indeed has a rich sporting history with football and cricket. C.T Studd is another cricketer that comes to mind, a Trinity man. He was the greatest cricketer of his time and played in the very first Ashes match I believe. |
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Post by Jerry1971 on Jan 12, 2011 11:49:53 GMT
I remember watching a young Mike Atherton destroying various County attacks at Fenners in his youth - he was Captain of Cambridge University and made his England debut whilst still at the Uni as well. We are lucky to have first class cricket in the middle of the City.
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Post by face on Jan 12, 2011 12:13:09 GMT
I was playing cricket on Parker's piece in the mid 1960's. The West Indies were playing at Fenners across the way. It was early evening, Rohan Kanhai and Gary Sobers were on their way back to the University Arms Hotel. They stopped to watch us for a few minutes. We were well chuffed. Sorry to hear about the Jack Hobbs pavillion.  |
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