World-A-Team Commentary team

[Paoli]

Self Glamourising Interviews now belong to Andy Mellon and RBLC.....You a rated music journo Andy???

[Andy Mellon]

Originally Posted by Paoli69

You a rated music journo Andy???

No, not really, it was a bit of a dodgy side-line at university.... Well, I say dodgy - I was Head of Music and later Station Manager at the uni radio station. I was also King of the Blag and got free gig tickets for every gig at decent venues in the West Midlands... Those were the days! Bloody good fun it was most of the time and its where I learnt to be blunt. I can still blag interviews now (though I'm finding with these cricketer interviews that its harder to do by e-mail than by 'phone)

If you want to be a journalist, then when you are at uni; join either the radio station or the university paper - it gives you real experience. I did some articles for the 'paper at the uni as I was much better at blagging decent interviews than them. I'm thinking of a career move at the moment, and could well decide to go into something along those lines.

My two guilty pleasures - Cricket and Music. If only I could find a job writing about music where April - September I was in the UK then October to March I was in NZ.... Cricket all year round!!! One can dream I suppose!

[Paoli]

Sounds good, maybe a career move on the pipeline.........Maybe organising the opening tracks for the cricket (If your in Australia, please remove Bill Lawry's "Ohh yes hes gone got him Shane Warne your a bloody champion" from the intro or Mark Taylors "Oh and hes bowled him...Big wicket for Ustrayya") would be a good job!!!

[Zainub]

Originally Posted by Paoli69

Who else hasn't got a guernsey???

Excuse the ignorance , but what exactly is a guernsey?

[Paoli]

A guernsey is a mention...

[Occasional Fan]

Eh? What's the etymology of that one, Paoli?

[Paoli]

Originally Posted by Occasional Fan

Eh? What's the etymology of that one, Paoli?

Etymology??? Wouldn't have a clue what it means....I assume symbolism/how it came about or something....

Well it is nothing more than a metaphor really....Getting a "guernsey" means you are "in" something so to speak...The phrase 'Who hasn't got a guernsey' means nothing more than 'Who isn't in?' or 'Who hasn't got a mention?'

Hope it cleared up the understanding...

[Leafy Seadragon]

It comes from the early days of football, when teams only had enough guernseys for the players on the pitch. So if you were part of the action, you "got a guernsey". Changing into a sweaty, bloody, muddy one off someone else at half-time emphasised the put-down

[Paoli]

Thats probably the right analogy, OF and ZR

[Occasional Fan]

Thanks, guys! Definitely a bit of Aussie English. I'd never have guessed what it meant. I don't think our footy players wear Guernseys - in fact, I'm not sure what they were called in days gone by, but now they are almost certainly shirts.