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Friday Feeling: Mike Skinner's Ashes tribute
JoeDiddly by Luke Slater January 7th, 2011

If you're into your cricket, you will have no doubt noticed that England won The Ashes with yet another crushing innings victory over a beleaguered and not-very-good Australian side. Well done lads. Anyway, Mike Skinner has done a little skit to celebrate this, I guess, where he reads from Kojak-a-like cricket journalist Mike Selvey's match report.

You can listen to it below:

Thanks to This Is Fake DIY for finding this, I wouldn't say it made my morning (obviously the cricket did...) but it was a nice little slice nevertheless.


Main photo by PJ Rosenberger



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