Saw Sir Geoffrey play in a charity game at a local cricket club...got out caught to a young bowler when on 14...just walked , no W.G Grace pomposity . Almost certainly a giveaway for the lad . Impressed me greatly . Or maybe he was "caught short " after too many cups of tea ....the Yorkshireman's Yorkshireman .
Throw in Alan Border, Steve Waugh and that bloke from South Africa who batted for 2+ days to save a test match (Gary Kirsten?). Cheers from Melbourne, Australia (I know a thing or two about perseverance - a bus driver in a low socioeconomic area, working for a company owned by 3 lawyers. BUT I've watched a test match in the West Indies and Sri Lanka (drinking with the 'Barmy Army' - 2012). Cheers🍺
Boycott had one redeeming quality; he was difficult to get out. His run rate wasn’t good enough to win a test match, but he could save one and force a draw. He has an inflated opinion of himself.
Yeah it was at the Semi Final at Headlingley South Africa V The Aussies. In the pavilion, these kids just asked him and he went beserk, saying that he was no going to do it etc real hissy fit. He and Boycott are what I call professional Yorkshiremen (think its OK to be rude to others 'cause their from Yorkshire. most are not like that (i'm from Sheffield) but they play up to a reputation in public. People like bird on TV he craps on about his MBE and all the so called charity work he does
Dickie Bird went out to umpire with Bill Budd at Trent Bridge for the 1st Test England v West Indies, in 1976. I remember Brearley and Edrich asking for bad light, they got it and trudged off quick march!
Boycott was the best my dad died 2 years ago he said he always wanted to see boycott bat just once he went years ago from wolverhampton on the train to headingley for an 11 o clock start boycott batted first and was out first ball must have been only time he was he always moaned about that
he did it to all of us before an india match in england i remember it well, but what was superb was how michael holding signed all of our '4/6' posters, made our day
@@SuperFerdie1965 I'm from Yorkshire myself but i'm certainly no typical Yorkshireman and I tend to agree with you to a degree. There's more than their fair share of them from that place.
I met Geoff after a one day international at Headingley a couple of years ago. I'd been working on the first aid team and he made a point of thanking us for turning out, knowing we were all volunteers. He didn't leave until every one, including the kids, had all the photos and autographs they wanted.
So what they’re great stories. How many do you have to regurgitate? Not many in that class I’m sure. If you don’t have anything decent to say don’t say it!
Top man Dickie, great character.
Saw Sir Geoffrey play in a charity game at a local cricket club...got out caught to a young bowler when on 14...just walked , no W.G Grace pomposity . Almost certainly a giveaway for the lad . Impressed me greatly . Or maybe he was "caught short " after too many cups of tea ....the Yorkshireman's Yorkshireman .
A true gentleman and a damn good umpire who was respected by all International teams.
I attended one of Dickie Bird's book launches in Sydney a decade or so ago. Very entertaining, particularly his comments on Boycott.
Geoffrey Boycott and Dickie Bird. Yorkshire legends both. And both generous to a fault.
Generous to a fault 🤣
You missed your vocation in life you should of been a top stand up comedian.
Generous??? Are you kidding me
Dickie Bird and David Shepherd, they were a pair.
Throw in Alan Border, Steve Waugh and that bloke from South Africa who batted for 2+ days to save a test match (Gary Kirsten?). Cheers from Melbourne, Australia (I know a thing or two about perseverance - a bus driver in a low socioeconomic area, working for a company owned by 3 lawyers. BUT I've watched a test match in the West Indies and Sri Lanka (drinking with the 'Barmy Army' - 2012). Cheers🍺
Boycott had one redeeming quality; he was difficult to get out. His run rate wasn’t good enough to win a test match, but he could save one and force a draw. He has an inflated opinion of himself.
England won loads of test matches due to his stoic batting - but hey, let's not let the facts get in the way of your prejudice.
Yeah it was at the Semi Final at Headlingley South Africa V The Aussies. In the pavilion, these kids just asked him and he went beserk, saying that he was no going to do it etc real hissy fit. He and Boycott are what I call professional Yorkshiremen (think its OK to be rude to others 'cause their from Yorkshire. most are not like that (i'm from Sheffield) but they play up to a reputation in public. People like bird on TV he craps on about his MBE and all the so called charity work he does
Dickie Bird went out to umpire with Bill Budd at Trent Bridge for the 1st Test England v West Indies, in 1976. I remember Brearley and Edrich asking for bad light, they got it and trudged off quick march!
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Well theyre both from the Republic of Yorkshire. It goes with the territory.
Boycott didn't get where he is by being half out of bed. He looked at that bed, and he got as far away from it as possible.
Boycott was the best my dad died 2 years ago he said he always wanted to see boycott bat just once he went years ago from wolverhampton on the train to headingley for an 11 o clock start boycott batted first and was out first ball must have been only time he was he always moaned about that
Boycott a good batsman who hated to get out
who are you referring to? Boycott or Bird?
ON THE BATSMAN LEGEND!!!!!!!
I once saw this fella being very horrible to some kids who asked him for an autograph - not a nice man in reality
he did it to all of us before an india match in england i remember it well, but what was superb was how michael holding signed all of our '4/6' posters, made our day
I’m related to him lmao
brilliant 😁😁
because he is a tight fisted knob. Bird is a bigger miser than Boycott ironically
Tightness is part of the Yorkshire character. Fucking awful people.
@@SuperFerdie1965 I'm from Yorkshire myself but i'm certainly no typical Yorkshireman and I tend to agree with you to a degree. There's more than their fair share of them from that place.
dlamiss Total nonsense. I met Dickie at Lords a few years back and he was an absolute gentleman
@@SuperFerdie1965 How dare you attack God's own county! Were the greatest people on earth!!.
😂
Eh up the parson's farted
Ee bah gum 'e as; an' all, a reet corker it were.
Bit sickophantic
Bit mis-spelt. " sycophantic "
@@CB-xr1eg I think he knew what he was typing! 😁😁
@@scottb4697 Maybe maybe not. Only Neil knows.
@@CB-xr1eg Yeah, I thought it was just a play on words, but as he's attacking the great Dickie he's probably just a bit thick! Lol.
Bird, Mind you I've heard Boycott is just as bad.
Richard Gray
I met Geoff after a one day international at Headingley a couple of years ago. I'd been working on the first aid team and he made a point of thanking us for turning out, knowing we were all volunteers. He didn't leave until every one, including the kids, had all the photos and autographs they wanted.
Y. MmYay
Dickie Bird is a rather unpleasant person off the pitch.
Do you know him?
He's Prince Charming compared to Boycott. Nicked for battering his girlfriend.
Regurgitates the same old old old stories.
So what they’re great stories. How many do you have to regurgitate? Not many in that class I’m sure. If you don’t have anything decent to say don’t say it!
@@vantheman1238 Well said!
Er. What?