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Media: A Moment with Marquis.(Interview)
How many times do you find yourself in agreement with Kelvin MacKenzie?
Worryingly often, in my case, because the old right-wing curmudgeon, sniffer-out of bullshit and no-nonsense free-marketeer talks the sort of old-fashioned common sense (sometimes, at any rate) that is in woefully short supply in our benighted country.
His Nibs was on the telly the other night with David Brook, the erstwhile head of strategy at Channel 4, discussing the 'affront' of Test match cricket upping stumps from Channel 4 for the smooth new wicket of Sky.
No surprise, I guess, that Kelvin backed Sky while Brook defended his old employer.
There can be no question that Channel 4 has done an outstanding job with cricket. It's got the best commentators, attention-grabbing camera positions, techie wizardry that shows when the umpires cock up and any amount of facts, figures, history and general cricketing wonderment. People at BBC Sport are muttering into their Chardonnay about how irritatingly good it is.
Channel 4 has even had the good fortune for English cricket to wake up after a quarter of a century and become what even non-cricket people must admit is skilful, competitive and thoroughly watchable.
And Channel 4's reward for all this? The Spanish ...
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