Streuth, Adolf Warne

Well actually, not so much. But the rumours that were rife that Australian legend and current Hampshire Captain Shane Warne was about to relinquish his Australian citizenship in favour of bratwurst and lederhosen have been scotched. The intended trick was to get around next season’s “only 1 International player per side”* regulations, since as a German national he would have qualified as a local and Hampshire could legitimately employ a(nother) bona fide overseas player.

But no, Warney is fair dinkum Aussie through-and-through and will take a plate of shrimps and a couple of cold ones before any phallic-shaped pork substances.

And why not.

For more humourous plays on words on the issue, such as “herr replacement” such, have a gander at The Googly.

* Far be it from me to comment on football (or soccer as some weirdos might call it), but this seems like a rule from which football, or at least football in England, could really benefit.