Flat bats

A columnist in The Journal newspaper of Newcastle, England, writes:

Before our untimely exit from Euro 2004, the Portuguese newspaper 24 Horas was scathing about the English as a nation.

'They eat eggs and sausages for breakfast, drive on the left, play baseball with an oar, set times for drinking and think they are the best.'

I can take the personal abuse and even criticism of our licensing laws but likening cricket to baseball?

Send in a gunboat!"

Hear, hear! I concur with the words, but with the opposite sentiment!