It has something to conclude with history,politics and the view of working men standing together to help one another, but it’s also about family and belongingBy Ian McMillan for The Nightwatchman, and of the Guardian Sport Network
Let’s believe about Time. Let’s believe about Ordinary Time,as scientists call it, and Cricket Time, or its refinement,the measurement we know as Yorkshire Cricket Time.
It would have been the mid-1970s, I believe, and I was watching Yorkshire play Leicestershire at Headingley. The game had been interrupted by harsh Leeds rain a few times,and me and the lads were sheltering and debating whether or not the bloke over there with the long hair was really Eric Clapton and, whether so, and should we be so uncool as to proceed over and ask for his autograph. Suddenly,as whether a cheap hotel shower had broken, the rain stopped and the game began again and the guitar god was forgotten.
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Source: theguardian.com