Hitting lorries for six isn't cricket
4th September 1982, Page 23
4th September 1982
Page 23
Page 23, 4th September 1982
— Hitting lorries for six isn't cricket
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Keywords :
Old Etonians, Insidious, Lorry, Cricket Nets, Brian Johnston, British People, War / Conflict
ANTI-LORRY propaganda raises its insidious head on unlikely occasions, even in as noncontroversial a radio programme as Down Your Way. Nosing around Dover, Brian Johnson, that amiable commentator on cricket and local activities, deplored the presence of "those juggernauts on the road."
Naughty Johnners was neatly caught at silly mid-off by Bob Bevan, Townsend Thoresen's public relations chief, who pointed out that people who were glad to buy tomatoes in the shops were indebted to those maligned lorries.
I suppose the fruit could be brought into Britain in nets hanging from bicycle handlebars or around the riders' necks but the Spanish-onion men might, with fierce Iberian pride, think they were being mocked and declare war on Gibraltar.
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Bob Bevan, Brian Johnson