All entries for Monday 24 August 2009
August 24, 2009
Ashes to Ashes, Memories to Dust
So we won the Ashes. Yay. Awesome. Etc.
Can’t help but wonder how many people actually saw it happen though. There were several thousand in the stadium, but the best that the bulk of the country could do was hope to catch it on the radio.
Given how much press the series has generated on both back and front covers, isn’t it a bit wrong that so few had the opportunity to see it happen? Isn’t it time to move the Ashes – home and away – to the protected list of events that have to be on terrestrial?