May
19
“I am continually fascinated by the difference between top performers and the rest of us, and I had a small but absorbing lesson in the way it operates last week. At the Test match, I have been sitting next to this newspaper’s new Chief Cricket Correspondent, Mike Atherton, who was once pretty good at the game himself. Shot! A more or less involuntary murmur of appreciation ubiquitous in cricketing circles. Me, I say it when the ball has beaten cover point and is creaming its way to the boundary. Atherton says it at the moment of impact.”
Simon Barnes, Chief Sportswriter for The Times (TimesOnline.co.uk, via ucayman)
I know precisely nothing about sports. But even I can understand the interesting metaphorical implications of the above. (Prententious, moi?)
