Just for oil protesters briefly invade the playing area spreading their orange dust about. Johnny Bairstow carried one of them off.

My thoughts are;

Lock them in a police cell for 48 hours and every hour on the hour open cell door and throw this "orange dust" over them.

At the end of 48 hours (give them no food or drink) get them to clear up the mess before releasing them.

Ideal conditions for taking wickets but it aint happening.

The reality is, they will be briefly detained and then released on bail. Probably already been released. UK law seems designed to allow these fuckwits to do as thety like.

They’re usually middle class martyr’s to the cause immature visionaries or retired professionals who will be treat with kid gloves. Any one else try it and your feet won’t touch the ground.

Pity Michael Cheek chose footy instead of cricket, Head caught Cheek bowled Tongue has a ring to it.

Can't understand how these tossers are not locked up straight away, obstructing the highways, criminal damage, assault, obvious offences but they are left to get on with it.
If it was footy fans going to an away game throwing coloured dust about they'd be lifted in an instant.

They must be determined to get their message across .but who in their right mind would run onto the pitch at the Twickenham rugby union final and throw orange dust near the players.?

I can never understand JSO, most major oil companies have a bigger GDP than some countries, if they get blocked in one location they move to a new location where no one is interested in climate change they grease a few palms.
I would like some of them to run onto an American footy match or a baseball game, they would get lynched.

These so called eco warriors are the most naive shower of moralists I’ve seen in a long time…innocents abroad who haven’t a clue how the world turns.
No oil…well their lives will be a lot different if it ever happened because their phones, their lap tops and a thousand other things that need plastic would disappea.

but most footy fans do not shuffle around with a vacent expression on their faces. you,d think they were on something with their expression on their faces devoid of any real expression at all.

Seen plenty who fit that description in the Rink End

before or after the match where the excitement of modern day football can dumb the spirits of anybody.

Back to a piece of string and 2 tin cans then ?
In some respect I wouldn’t mind that, people walking texting etc on their phones, I would bar them from pubs, cafes etc and maybe people would start conversing again instead of staring at screen. Watch a fella and girlfriend come into a bar, what’s the first thing they do, get their phones out !

Speaking of mobile phones, down Seaton early Monday morning with Ratboy on the prom near the Staincliffe… bent down to untangle his lead and a girl in her 20’s walked into me from behind…no damage done and she apologised profusely as she was on her phone….she walked off back on her phone and 20 metres down the prom walked smack into one of the big black bins and went flying.
Wonder what was so important, funny part was when she hit the big bin, she went backwards and the phone went in the bin….the odour of dog shit bags and chip wrappers should give it a pungent fragrance

She was on the phone speaking with her friend saying "there's some old bloke bent over just ahead of me, what should I do?" Friend says "barge into him and knock him over."
You got your revenge Snowy when she walked into the next obstruction. although I would have thought both episodes were made for candid camera?

I just burst out laughing … couldn’t help it…. Mind you , yesterday at the same place on the pavement, I was putting Ratboy in the car and a voice said ….“ excuse me, could you move, I can’t get past with your car door open”…..I looked round to see this aged Lycra loon on a bike with more cameras on his helmet than a Chinese spy balloon…. …..momentarily I thought I’d point out out the road was deserted as was the promenade, then the devil on my shoulder kicked in and told him “You can fuck right off”. I look forward to my appearance on YouTube in ‘ WHEN PEDESTRIANS ATTACK’.

make a section of the community look like untouchables with everything geared in their favour you cannot expect em acting in any other way. hartlepool has always had loads of folk riding bikes but they never saw the need to dress up to do it as if they were part of the tour de france. like 7 year olds who cannot have a kick about without a replica shirt on and the dearest boots their family can afford.

ever seen kids waiting for the bus or walking to school. they all seem to be staring at their phones or messing with them. you cannot use em when driving but i,m not sure that the ones who cannot leave em alone will concentrate 100 per cent on driving living in fear of missing a text. must be like having a problem permanently on your mind by being a slave of one.

Less than 3 runs an over with 6 wickets.
Target 255ish.
Doable matematically.
In reality no chance.
0 2 down.

anything can happen in sport especially cricket where the type of weather comes into it more. if i was an aussie i,d only be happy when the final wicket falls because at the moment its theirs to lose as well.

Rather watch paint dry than watch cricket.

Spoken like a true European.

I liked to play it (when younger!) but never one to watch it.

Absolutely Outrageous display from Stokes.
73 runs needed wirh 4 wickets.
Finely balanced.

Great entertainment...........much preferable than premier league footie.

same here and can add field hockey to it as well. totally unwatchable on the tele and not much better live.

What about American football, basketball and baseball, I once went to a baseball match in the States, the players just kept running of and on the pitch, I left at the end not knowing who won or lost.

American football is boooooooooring….and basketball is like table tennis for tall people…score ends 88-89.
Cricket was called organised loafing, that’s what appealed to me about it at school, pleasant on a summers day if the ball never comes your way.

All sport apart from football has no real appeal to me at all….apart from the topless darts on the telly on Bournemouth beach a few years back

think there are more armchair football fans that the rest of sports put together. its only the hype of wimbledon tennis and the olympics that get many watching. even boxing has only got minority interest unless its the heavyweights.

Hurling & Gaelic football are good sports to watch.........no poncing around like the PL.

agree, but they are not pushed by the media as others are.

What a brutal way to not win the 4th Test.

Nice way for Broad to retire.