World Cricket II

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More on Atherton. When he started playing County Cricket, he was anointed FEC(Future England Captain) even before he played a first class game. Thisd is because of his oxbridge background and the tradition of oxbridge old boys taking care of their network as selectors journalists influential opinion makers etc. The best oxbridge candidtae usually had lots of backing. In Lancashire, where they breed no nonsense straight speaking folks from "lower" class background, Atherton's kit was marked FEC - but with a twist. They changed E to Educated but FC, I'll leave it to your imagination. This is for feeyar - vulgar language is also part of Englis cricket but public school oxbridge cabal still rules so you get to see the Cook Strauss types as captain contenders heavily promot. This is one of the reasons KP was conspired against.