GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
How long have you got?Goughy said:Whats Wrong With Southerners?
How long have you got?Goughy said:Whats Wrong With Southerners?
I'd hazard a guess that it's the amount of coal northerners eat, must be conductive to pace bowling somehow. Though we can't overlook poor body odour and Labour MP's.It is an interesting question as to why?
It's probably not a concidence that all of the northern batsmen (exc. a certain allrounder) are openers, whereas the southerners are mainly from the middle order. I suppose that fits with the northerner doing the hard work seeing off the new ball so that the fancy dans from the south can blaze away with impunity once life is easier. Something like that, anyway.Not quite as significant as the fast bowling but there is a definate Southern flavour to the batting.
It is an interesting question as to why? As with the bowling, maybe its a residual cultural hangover from the old Am/Pro days, or possibly more likely the selectors have had streotypes in their heads and liked the idea of a bluff Northerner doing the hard work and having batsmen from fashionable and important counties doing the batting.
There surely is an element of regional bias involved in both areas, just a matter of how much.
Good question. I think the good folks of Worcestershire would be surprised to see themselves described as northerners, if that's why Snow is categorised as as such.Where's the line between N and S, BTW?
Forget about the France thing for the time being. Only map I've got.Where's the line between N and S, BTW?
England Players debuting Post-WW2 with over 4000 Test runs (Southern born and raised in red) (overseas born in blue)
ME Trescothick
MP Vaughan
MA Butcher
GP Thorpe
N Hussain
AJ Stewart
MA Atherton
RA Smith
AJ Lamb
MW Gatting
DI Gower
IT Botham
GA Gooch
APE Knott
G Boycott
JH Edrich
ER Dexter
KF Barrington
MC Cowdrey
TW Graveney
PBH May
Agreed.Some of the bowlers claimed as "northern" are really only "northern" in the same way as Andrew Symonds is a Brummie. Botham was raised & educated in Yeovil from the age of four, Fraser went to school in Harrow (Gayton High rather than the public school) & Willis in Guildford. For mine upbringing is far more important than birthplace.
In reply to OP, its colder up north, like practically arctic, so its easier to run around all day without getting sweaty. Simple biomechanics really.
Depends whether you're male or female.Actually, facetious and flippant as I may be, when does it stop being acceptable to cry? I can remember any tears past the age of about 7 or 8 to have resulted in serious mickey-taking and the word "bealing" (is that exclusive to Grimsby?) being strewn around like confetti.
Down here year sixes (age 11) cry and it gets sympathy...