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The Corridor of Uncertainty is the official unofficial England cricket fanzine.
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Latest news:
The Corridor of Uncertainty received an “official warning” for selling issue 11 in the ground in Hamilton and had to resort to selling outside the ground before play as well as during lunch and after play. This is difficult as there was more than one main entrance meaning half of the potential readers didn’t get the opportunity to buy.
The authorities are attempting to take cricket away from the people, that’s the main problem. It’s all about how much money they can make and how they can spoil other people trying to air their views.
However the Corridor of Uncertainty will keep battling on and is printing more fanzines as we speak. They will be on sale at the Wellington Test outside the gate on the city side of the Basin Reserve.
There may be T-shirts too. No promises, but these are being looked into at the moment.
Ask Clarky for details.
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Recent news:
Corridor of Uncertainty issue 10 was on sale in Sri Lanka just before Christmas and went down well with the majority of fans who throughout the tour hotly debated the question “Duncan Fletcher - Genius or Twat?”. Let’s face it, the cricket was pretty dire.
Other articles included Adrian Hoggarth’s “My Dear Old C*nt”, a tribute of sorts to Blowers, Mark Gretton’s “Shut Your Gob and Get on WIth It”, an anti-tribute to sledging, “Resurrecting a Dead Art” by Big Harvey, which was basically about resurrecting a dead art (under-arm bowling, since you ask), a piece on the resilience of the Sri Lankans by Steve Weatherill, who also contributed a super quiz and number nine in the cartoon series “Blokes You Meet at the Cricket”. Also contributing were the Shrewsbury boys Dan Hough and John Wigley who for some strange reason decided to go to the World Cup in the West Indies, but thankfully wrote an article for the Corridor on how rubbish it was. There was other stuff too, but you’ll have to buy it if you want to find out what!
Copies still available - see the Products section for details of how to order.
Corridor of Uncertainty Sri Lanka 2007 polo shirts - a few still available. See the Products section for details.
News from last winter:
Despite the best intentions of Cricket Australia and various city councils around the convict colony, the Corridor of Uncertainty sold a great number of copies during the Ashes Tests. Oh yes.
T-shirts were also sold. T-shirts with a picture of Jardine and the words “Douglas Jardine - Ashes Hero” on the front. On the back was a picture of the Bodyline field and the following poem written by the great man himself:
“Australia’s writers showed their claws,
Her backers raged, her batsmen shook,
Statesmen consulted - and the cause?
Our bowling was too good to hook.”
A few Jardine T-shirts are still available - See the Products section for details.
The T-shrits really wound the Aussies up. Many of them either didn’t know their cricket history, or didn’t know the laws of the game as they existed at the time, preferring instead to shout at Clarky (as he sold the T-shirts outside the grounds), “Jardine was a fucking cheat” or “There’s the fucking wanker that’s selling those T-shirts”.
I’d love to say it was all in good humour, but unfortunately it wasn’t. Many Australians just don’t do “good humour”, instead resorting to personal insults. And even these are not in the least bit humourous.
The great thing about the large majority of Aussies is that they are very easily wound up!
The T-shirts were designed by Big Harvey to compliment the following article he had written about Jardine and the Bodyline controversy for the Ashes edition of the Corridor of Uncertainty:
Time to Right History’s Wrongs
Aslo: During the Ashes Andy Clark was writing regularly for Fairfax Digital who run the web sites for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. It was a blog type thing which wound up loads of not very intelligent Australians who left messages such as “Fuck off Pommie, go home” and other literary masterpieces. These can still be found on the web if you look here (they read from the bottom upwards, by the way): http://blogs.smh.com.au/barmyarmy/