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A Sussex man

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I grew up in Worthing in the 1980s. I love cricket, even more than football. All this makes me a Sussex man. My football, as various Italians know, runs to Liverpool the predominant force in the UK in the 80's. I always defended this unashamed childhood glory hunting by reference to Sussex CCC  the first First Class cricket club formed in 1839 and yet never winners until Mushy and the wonderful summer of 2003. This is all by way of introduction to the comments on the last Test Match by England and Sussex's Matt Prior. Quite frankly I'm ashamed. Winding people up by childish games is bad enough. If he really said what the BBC claim he did, well frankly it's unbelievable and shameful.

I'm rather less proud of Sussex today than I was.