Ever since Sports Guy penned his entertaining, and ultimately misguided guide to the English Premiere League, I've been a Michael Davies fan due, oddly enough, to Simmons'preview of Chelsea:
Celebrity Fans: Michael Caine and fellow Page 2 columnist Michael Davies. As I mentioned earlier, I wanted to find a different team than Davies so we could have heated e-mail exchanges and use insulting words like "wanker."
After hurriedly googling (which, according to Wikipedia's entry on google is an acceptable term to refer to "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet"), I discovered that Michael Davis is not only charmingly funny, in that particularly deprecating British sort of way, but he is remarkably astute about what makes distinctly European sports worth following. Check out the mercenary work he did for ESPN, for starters.
He has another column on the self-proclaimed Worldwide Leader in Sports (which, if you've been paying attention, I've mentioned a second time without directly linking to) which helps demystify the wonderful world of cricket for us ignoramuses so thoroughly Americanized that we hardly know that the sport exists, much less, means so much to people worldwide. Enjoy the link, but not ESPN!
Picture of Michael Davies comes courtesy of (sigh) that which must be acknowledged, but not enjoyed. Damn my enslavement to proper citation, even to sports organizations dedicated to thoroughly homogenizing sports news content!
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