ashes 2005

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Wheelie bin Giles MBE!

Submitted by Rick Eyre on January 3 2006, 3:38 am

I think it's fabulous how the Blair Government has opened up the honours lists to people who would never have been contemplated in stuffier times. But I think they're going a bit overboard in rewarding national sporting victories. A dangerous precedent was set when England won the 2003 Rugby World Cup, and now we have the 2005 Ashes squad all getting gongs.

Even the fruits of victory would be Ashes in our mouth

Submitted by Rick Eyre on September 20 2005, 2:44 pm

ANDREW DENTON: What are you going to do with the rest of your life?

MARK LATHAM: Well I'm very happy being a home dad and the arrangements we've got at home are fantastic so why change a winning formula?

ANDREW DENTON: When the boys are 16, 17, 18, when they're getting out of the house, what are you going to do?

MARK LATHAM: I'll be carrying their cricket bags...

[studio audience] LAUGHTER

MARK LATHAM: ...As they play for Australia and try and reclaim the Ashes.

LAUGHTER

Raccoon's in The Guardian

Submitted by Rick Eyre on September 18 2005, 4:23 am

The Guardian's online over-by-over coverage of the final day of the Fifth Test has come top of website editor Emily Bell's Guardian.co.uk Top 5 for this week. Among the edited highlights reproduced from that tumultuous day was my remark about Kevin Pietersen and the dead raccoon under his helmet.

Riots in Belfast? What riots in Belfast?

Submitted by Rick Eyre on September 14 2005, 10:31 pm

Yes it's always good to have an historic sporting triumph to keep civil unrest off the front pages...

Congratulations to you and the whole team on your fantastic series win.

It's been sport at its very best, played in a wonderful spirit between two exceptional sides, and has gripped the whole country.

With so many people following this extraordinary series ball by ball, I'm not sure our economy could stand many more days like today - or our nerves any more excitement.

Earth, I'm comin down!

Submitted by Rick Eyre on September 14 2005, 1:29 pm

Warmest congratulations to you, the England team and all in the squad for the magnificent achievement of regaining the Ashes. This has been a truly memorable series and both sides can take credit for giving us all such a wonderfully exciting and entertaining summer of cricket at its best.

ELIZABETH R

- The Queen of Australia, among other countries, displays her partisanship in a congratulatory message to Michael Vaughan