Barney Rubble
International Coach
On the BBC website, these are the profiles giving you a little "extra information" about each of the England team. I can't figure out how to post the pictures, so you'll have to have a look yourselves, but here are the highlights of the player profiles:
Michael Vaughan: is rubbish at dancing, but will dance to "Daydream Believer" by The Monkees.
Marcus Trescothick: only ate steak for the first time when he was 27.
Andrew Strauss: is a bit of a geek - "any interesting set of statistics will keep him up for hours."
Ian Bell: was at Coventry City FC School of Excellence when he was younger.
Kevin Pietersen: represented KwaZulu-Natal at swimming from 1992-93.
Freddie Flintoff: is scared of the dark (!) after watching The Exorcist when he was 9, loves mushy peas with six slices of bread, and would like to play guitar in a band.
Geraint Jones: is a qualified pharmacist.
Ashley Giles: is a 14-handicap golfer.
Matthew Hoggard: is a talented cook, and enjoys long walks in the countryside with his dogs.
Steve Harmison: loves fish and chips, "enjoys lager", and hates shaving.
Simon Jones: takes good care of his skin, and loves ironing.
Some of those are pretty funny in themselves, but to get the real extent of it you have to look at the pictures - can't post a link because it doesn't come up in the address bar, but go to the BBC Sport website and you can look at them. Some of them are classic, especially the ones of Harmison, Giles, Strauss, KP and S Jones.
Michael Vaughan: is rubbish at dancing, but will dance to "Daydream Believer" by The Monkees.
Marcus Trescothick: only ate steak for the first time when he was 27.
Andrew Strauss: is a bit of a geek - "any interesting set of statistics will keep him up for hours."
Ian Bell: was at Coventry City FC School of Excellence when he was younger.
Kevin Pietersen: represented KwaZulu-Natal at swimming from 1992-93.
Freddie Flintoff: is scared of the dark (!) after watching The Exorcist when he was 9, loves mushy peas with six slices of bread, and would like to play guitar in a band.
Geraint Jones: is a qualified pharmacist.
Ashley Giles: is a 14-handicap golfer.
Matthew Hoggard: is a talented cook, and enjoys long walks in the countryside with his dogs.
Steve Harmison: loves fish and chips, "enjoys lager", and hates shaving.
Simon Jones: takes good care of his skin, and loves ironing.
Some of those are pretty funny in themselves, but to get the real extent of it you have to look at the pictures - can't post a link because it doesn't come up in the address bar, but go to the BBC Sport website and you can look at them. Some of them are classic, especially the ones of Harmison, Giles, Strauss, KP and S Jones.