Gregory Taylor

#OnThisDay in 1917, British comedy legend #frankiehowerd was born.

@radio_vicky Just started watching it , certainly realise how ridiculous the famous five are . Five minutes in and already exposes the casual racism and sexism

@GregoryTaylor86 The famous five parodies are my favourite

Reminder that Comic Strip Presents… episodes are available for your viewing pleasure on All4: channel4.com/programmes/com…

@81emmajd I sentence you to great hangover tomorrow 😂

@81emmajd Sober as judge , no doubt lol

Sir Rod Stewart says he’s spent more than 50 years touching plates that waiters have told him are too hot to touch and he hasn’t been burnt once

Good. We don’t forget Salisbury and Litvinenko you scumbags.

@allanholloway Nuce way to go I guess .

@GregoryTaylor86 Sheppard was the only player who was ordained at the time he played for England. Tom Killick who appeared in 2 Tests v South Africa in 1929, became ordained after he retired and died while playing cricket in an inter-diocesan match: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Killi…

5 March 2005: David Stuart Sheppard, Lord Sheppard of Liverpool, Cambridge University, Sussex & England cricketer and Anglican Cleric, dies at West Kirby, Merseyside aged 75: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_She…

@Backpainandwine That glass is unacceptable, it's almost empty 😆

@allanholloway Of course in pg Wodehouse Jeeves and Wooster you have Reverend Harold Stinker Pinker who is Oxford blue in cricket might be double blue .

@allanholloway How many vicars have played for England or played first class cricket, great quiz question or good book on vicars and cricket

All these Oligarch’s yachts being seized. Looking forward to the Bullseye reboot.

The Conservatives must rid dodgy Putin-linked money from the United Kingdom.

Once again uk behind on doing this.

⚡️Media: Italy seizes property worth $150 million from Russian oligarchs. According to The Guardian, the list includes villas of billionaire Alisher Usmanov and Russian state TV host Vladimir Soloviev, yachts of Russia’s richest man, Alexei Mordashov, and Gennady Timchenko.

@jfwduffield Was attempt by cb fry to try and get Germany to play cricket , he lobbied the German ambassdor von Ribbentrop on the issue .

@GregoryTaylor86 And team sports provided a structured alternative form of physical activity for men other than military training. Germany wasn't very good at football until after 1945 either.

I Remember this story about the late great Shane Warne , love his line “I'm not going to be Adolf Warne or anything like that” 😂 Read more at: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/22… timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/new-zea…

@jfwduffield Might have thought with the toughness of rugby and it’s appeal in public schools and how was seen character building might have had appeal with German upper class.

@GregoryTaylor86 Militarised society. The German upper middle class were too busy training as soldiers & army officers. Fencing & duelling was massive. Modern team sports developed in the UK largely because it wasn't a militarised society.

Often wondered why our German friends have never embraced either rugby or cricket . When you consider how close Britain and Germany had been in the 19th century and influence uk had in Germany up ww1 might have rugby at least would be played .

Missed a trick 😂 stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/…