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Post by timmullen on Mar 28, 2024 8:07:25 GMT
According to Wiki: Mark Buthcher (Reform) Wasn't he in East Enders? That was Mark Fowler. Mark Butcher followed his dad in playing cricket for Surrey and England and is now one of the better TV commentators in an increasing pool of dross. |
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Post by Old Fashioned Leftie on Mar 28, 2024 8:37:29 GMT
Wasn't he in East Enders? That was Mark Fowler. Mark Butcher followed his dad in playing cricket for Surrey and England and is now one of the better TV commentators in an increasing pool of dross. Yes was it Mark Fowler's brother, Foxy Fowler, who played for England?! |
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Post by timmullen on Mar 28, 2024 8:38:47 GMT
That was Mark Fowler. Mark Butcher followed his dad in playing cricket for Surrey and England and is now one of the better TV commentators in an increasing pool of dross. Yes was it Mark Fowler's brother, Foxy Fowler, who played for England?! Something like that… |
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Post by batman on Mar 28, 2024 8:45:27 GMT
Few cricketers are more transformed in their appearance post-retirement than Graeme "Foxy" Fowler.
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Post by uthacalthing on Mar 28, 2024 9:50:21 GMT
As did his dad, but not all that often.
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Mar 28, 2024 12:09:55 GMT
A party called "NONPOL" intends to stand here. They have a Twitter presence, such as this recent post, directly asking Julian Assange's wife to email them:
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Post by heslingtonian on Mar 28, 2024 12:16:55 GMT
Wasn't he in East Enders? That was Mark Fowler. Mark Butcher followed his dad in playing cricket for Surrey and England and is now one of the better TV commentators in an increasing pool of dross. Anyone who follows Mark Butcher on social media will know he is no Reform supporter. He's definitely on the Left politically. |
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Post by heslingtonian on Mar 28, 2024 12:17:55 GMT
Few cricketers are more transformed in their appearance post-retirement than Graeme "Foxy" Fowler. A man who divorced his wife through a fax message allegedly. |
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Post by timmullen on Mar 28, 2024 12:38:58 GMT
That was Mark Fowler. Mark Butcher followed his dad in playing cricket for Surrey and England and is now one of the better TV commentators in an increasing pool of dross. Anyone who follows Mark Butcher on social media will know he is no Reform supporter. He's definitely on the Left politically. If the social media rumours were true he was approached to stand for Labour against Ken Livingstone as Mayor of London |
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Post by timmullen on Mar 28, 2024 12:38:58 GMT
That was Mark Fowler. Mark Butcher followed his dad in playing cricket for Surrey and England and is now one of the better TV commentators in an increasing pool of dross. Anyone who follows Mark Butcher on social media will know he is no Reform supporter. He's definitely on the Left politically. If the social media rumours were true he was approached to stand for Labour against Ken Livingstone as Mayor of London |
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 28, 2024 14:13:04 GMT
We heard you the first time  I assume this was for the original 2000 election? A fair few "non-political" names were floated around that time, before poor old Frank was made the fall guy. |
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Post by minionofmidas on Mar 28, 2024 17:13:53 GMT
A party called "NONPOL" intends to stand here. They have a Twitter presence, such as this recent post, directly asking Julian Assange's wife to email them: ? need to work on their english skills |
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Mar 28, 2024 20:40:20 GMT
Ben Thomas is the Green candidate.
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Post by nobodyimportant on Mar 28, 2024 21:35:20 GMT
A party called "NONPOL" intends to stand here. They have a Twitter presence, such as this recent post, directly asking Julian Assange's wife to email them: ? need to work on their english skills It does read rather similar to an email from a Nigerian prince. |
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Post by batman on Mar 28, 2024 21:41:47 GMT
I really do tire of people who are obviously in political parties but claim they aren't political, or if they're elected to office aren't politicians.
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Post by uthacalthing on Mar 28, 2024 22:42:21 GMT
Few cricketers are more transformed in their appearance post-retirement than Graeme "Foxy" Fowler. A man who divorced his wife through a fax message allegedly. This did not go down well with his County captian and brother in law Alex Stewart. As to Buthers politics, they may or not be influenced by the fact that he is arguably the only black man to have captained England if one regards ethnic Asians like Nasser Hussein as not black and men whose mum in Jamaican and dad (Butcher) is white as being notionally black. Given his dads playing time in Apartheid South Africa, I had wrongly guessed that his mum was Coloured or Black African Did Ranji never captain England? |
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Post by batman on Mar 28, 2024 22:45:42 GMT
No, Ranji did not captain England, indeed I doubt that it would been seen as acceptable in those days for him to have done so
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Post by islington on Mar 28, 2024 23:27:08 GMT
No, Ranji did not captain England, indeed I doubt that it would been seen as acceptable in those days for him to have done so It's true that Ranji never captained England but he was never an obvious candidate to do so given that during his Test career England was captained by Grace, Stoddart, McLaren and Jackson. Note also that Ranji captained Sussex 1899-1903 at a time when the county certainly had other amateurs available. |
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Post by iang on Mar 30, 2024 7:45:40 GMT
I'm not aware that Alan Butcher played in apartheid era South Africa. He was coach of Zimbabwe for quite a while though. Mark Butcher is the most capped England player from a Caribbean heritage, Nasser Hussein is indeed the player from a non white background to have captained England the most often. Fifth England player of Asian heritage to play in an Ashes test and the first to not score a century on debut. Ranji was the first - anyone name the next three?
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Post by batman on Mar 30, 2024 8:20:38 GMT
I'm not aware that Alan Butcher played in apartheid era South Africa. He was coach of Zimbabwe for quite a while though. Mark Butcher is the most capped England player from a Caribbean heritage, Nasser Hussein is indeed the player from a non white background to have captained England the most often. Fifth England player of Asian heritage to play in an Ashes test and the first to not score a century on debut. Ranji was the first - anyone name the next three? nothing in Alan Butcher's Wiki to say he played there, as you say. Players of Asian heritage to play in an Ashes test - Iftikhar, Nawab of Pataudi (also played for India), K.S.Duleepsinhji (Ranji's nephew), and perhaps Raman Subba Row? I presume the latter has Asian heritage, though I don't know for sure. They all scored centuries in their Ashes débuts. Subba Row also scored one in his final Ashes Test. He should have played longer for England. |
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