Empire strikes back

BY jove, what a jolly spiffing result from Jamaica as our chappies saw off those blighters from Pakistan in the cricket world cup.

Empire strikes back
Wed, 21 Mar, 2007 - 00:00
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Surely our rehabilitation is now complete following our silly indiscretion in 1949 when those cads and bounders from the inter-party government tore us from the bosom of mother empire. Roll on the ‘Windies’. Tally-ho!

Tom Cooper

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