Review
'Actually completely brilliant'
(Ian Hislop )'A real gold standard sense of humour'
(David Baddiel )
'Rare, clever, creative ... a maverick, pushing boundaries with outrageous jokes'
(Guardian )'Crammed with sharp observation, comic and cruel characterisation and a great many very good jokes... Gloriously funny and life-affirming'
(Telegraph )'Surely the funniest book ever written about the English addiction to cricket...a beautiful tale of classic British humour, self-deprecation, great courage'
(Daily Mail )'Even people who despise cricket will adore this'
(Times )'Very funny . . .he fills his warm-hearted book with a satisfying selection of tales'
(Sunday Times )'Funny and inspiring...Thompson writes with a novelist's sympathy about a wonderfully mixed bunch of characters' - Hugh Massingberd
(Literary Review )'As funny as you would expect from the writer of Have I Got News For You'
(Daily Express )'Harry Thompson wrote with such verve and wit that he could have made a trip round a multi-storey car park into an adventure'
(Celia Brayfield, The Times )
'A very funny, peculiarly British travel book'
(Markus Berkman, Daily Mail )
