And now for some cricket

Getting away from everything else, the Observer Sport Monthly (which may soon be disappearing, according to Private Eye) has a good profile of Andy Flintoff, with some humorous snippets from his career:

In the 1980s, housebuilder Barratt made the mistake of buying St Anne's old third-team ground and building executive homes on it. They hadn't realised just how far the teenage Flintoff would hit: he peppered those homes in his three years with the club, breaking windows and once landing a ball on a resident's breakfast table.