Phil Walker

And also, but just in brackets, he's, um, psychopathically desperate to carry on.

And I think that was a question after the ashes, but he's, he's probably more, um, switched onto it now than he has been at any other point.

And I think it kind of consumes him, um, what's to come over the next year and a bit.

All roads lead to next summer.

They really do.

There are Ashes series and then there are Ashes series and the one next year, considering how long it's been since Australia won over here, considering how long it's been since England beat Australia, it all leads to that date with destiny and all

A thousand percent, Sam.

A thousand percent.

Welcome to England, mate.

So, first of all, I gave that interview to the BBC and the Telegraph, bless them, took my quotes, didn't attribute them, and then lined me up alongside Robert Jenrick, who's a kind of like quasi-neo-fascist who's probably going to be the next Deputy Prime Minister for report.

And, you know, me being a kind of, you know, old, lily-livered lefty, everyone had a lovely old time of it to see my name in this country.

So I contacted the Telegraph and I said, look, you know, I respect...

The grift.

But, you know, I gave that interview to the BBC and that needs to be acknowledged.

And I got an email back and said, oh, yeah, sorry, Bill, blah, blah, we will change that.

But it seems like they haven't.

It seems like they haven't put in.

Yeah, gotcha.

thank you glad I could put it straight on an Australian podcast but yeah someone got it in the leg and went ow and then three cricket teams and 200 years of history got basically put in the bin no

But then the ECB stepped in and sorted it out.