England are the new Pakistan.. I don't mean that the Taliban are roaming around the country blowing things up - I mean that our cricket team is generally useless, punctuated by occasional bouts of weird brilliance. I blame the one day series with Australia; they got fed up with constantly losing by 30 runs, and decided that from that day forward they'd instead lose by 150 two thirds of the time and win by 100 the rest of the time.
Anyway.. to cheer myself up after England's abject bungling I'm going to watch the snooker. Ronnie O'Sulivan is playing Mark Selby and as I understand it, they are polar opposites. Ronnie O'Sulivan is a tortured genius, twice as talented as any other player, but bemoaning how depressed he is. Mark Selby's neat quiff suggests he's like the chap you knew at school who never said anything, but always seemed to have a bafflingly pretty girlfriend, and who is now doing quite well at your old local Barclays bank, and going a bit bald.
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The sad end to this story is that I stopped watching at 9-6 to O'Sullivan, and missed a thrilling comeback to 10-9, by the quiffed warrior.
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