You'll be familiar with William
Shakespeare's famous gag about suffering the "slings and arrows of
outrageous fortune."
Well, if
the Bard of Avon were still with us, and wanting to see real suffering, he
needed to be watching the cricket with me yesterday afternoon.
Talk about Ss & As.
My modus operandum on occasions such as
the World T20 Final is to watch in conjunction with the Sky Bet online betting
app, wait for what I feel to be a propitious moment to back the losing team,
equip myself with a cup of tea and a Maryland cookie, invest, and wait for the
comeback.
Thus it was that when England lost
quick wickets at the start of the match, I took advantage of the 13-8 on offer,
but soon sailed into a sea of troubles - see what I'm doing here - as we continued
to succumb to the West Indies' bowling.
Ay, there's the rub, I thought, although in slightly stronger terms.....
The full article can be read on sportingintelligence.com from 10 a.m. Monday April 4th