With the England teams doing so poorly at Football, Cricket and Rugby at the moment it's perhaps time to look for another sport to invest our time, money and support in. I'd like to to propose that there is one sport which has been overlooked for too long and for no good reason. It provides exciting edge of the seat entertainment where team of 9 althletic individuals use their strength and skill to outwit and outplay the opposition. To participate involves no special equipment (the venue provides everything you need - although you'll probably have to contribute to the 'sticker-up's fee). What's more you can have a couple of pints at the same time and some sarnies and chips halfway through the evening.
Yes, that age old game of skittles (Gloucestershire rules) is making a bid to be the next sport to be supported buy the Sports Council. A minimum amount of investment at the West's premier skittles venue ('The Wheatsheaf Inn') will ensure that Team GB bring home skittling gold at London 2012!
Well, its a possibility......
In the meantime, my team - Wheatsheaf Hospital C - are languishing mid-table in the lowest Division of the Cirencester Men's Skittles League (having once reached the heady heights of Division 1). However, we are having a reasonably successful cup run this year and next week have a crammed calender of fixtures with two cup games in two days. To give an idea of the sort of committment the team demands Ali's Dad (Tony) has been playing for the same team, 'Hospital C ', for over fifty years, and his dad played before him. Despite my advancing years I am still referred to as the teams 'youth policy'!
Must go.....I hear Setanta are interested in televising our Singapore Cup match against "the Ploughmen".......
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