Jacob Procter

[Jacob Procter @JacobProcter4]

@racingblogger Bloggsy got em all on strings again 🎣

[Bookies Dream @bookiesdream0]

This is honestly the best Cheltenham I’ve seen for ages from a punting perspective

Odds on backers aren’t happy but you can bet them everyday of the week

This year you can back top class horses at odds against or even get each way prices on some. It’s fucking quality

LUMP

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

Theo Walcott asked how Manchester United's 2008 team would compete against the current Arsenal team..

Wayne Rooney's response is class. 😂😂😂😂

[Abhishek AB @ABsay_ek]

There’s a particular cruelty in cricket’s numbers when you’re a pace bowler. The sport will worship a quick who can touch 150kph even if his average hovers around 30, but a bowler who runs in with the intensity of a man trying to push a broken-down car uphill? He needs to prove himself in triplicate just to get his kit bag in the dressing room...

Michael Neser has 423 first class wickets at 23 odd average. He also has 4000+ runs at average around 30. Those are allrounder numbers. Yet until last month, Neser’s entire Test career could be summarized in a coffee break: 2 matches, in last 4 years, each appearance feeling like Australia had remembered they had a spare key hidden under the doormat...

Stat sheet doesn’t tell you about the 2010 Shield debut, when a 20 year old Neser dismissed Adam Voges and Shaun Marsh; two batters who’d go on to play Test cricket, whose Test careers would begin after that game & end before Neser got his baggy green. It doesn’t tell you about the countless times he’d be the best bowler in Shield, only to watch the selectors fax in another squad with his name in the “emergency only” column...

“I feared my Test career was over,” Neser admitted last summer, and you could hear the exhaustion in that sentence. Not the dramatic exhaustion of a torn ACL or a stress fracture, but the quiet, grinding fatigue of a man who’d torn his hamstring playing Australia A against India A at the MCG; 12 months on the shelf for a glorified practice match. The kind of injury that happens to players who are always available, always dependable, always one phone call away from being told “we need you to carry drinks and maybe bowl 12 overs in nets if it rains.”

Neser, at 35, became the human equivalent of that reliable sedan in your garage; works perfectly, gets you everywhere, but everyone’s dreaming about the sports car they can’t afford.

And then, the twist. Gabba 2025.
Last minute selection over Nathan Lyon, a decision that had Shane Warne’s ghost reaching for the whiskey. A 35 year old on his home ground, picked ahead of the greatest off-spinner of the modern era. The controversy was delicious. The vindication? Even better.

Neser’s Test progression reads like a man who’s tired of being the backup plan.
1st Test: 2 wickets. 2nd Test: 5. 3rd Test: 6. 4th Test: 4 in the first innings at MCG, each wicket a middle finger to the idea that you need 90mph to succeed in Australia. He has never gone wicketless in an innings. Not once!
In this series where England built their entire philosophy around speed; Wood, Archer, Carse, Atkinson. Neser & Scott Boland have tilted this Ashes by proving that 5 good balls an over beats one thunderbolt followed by four half-volleys...

Depth of Australian fast bowling didn’t just keep Neser out of the side; it forged him into something harder, sharper, more complete. While others were being rested & rotated, he was bowling in Cardiff, batting in Glamorgan, learning to be the player you’d build a team around even if nobody ever did...
You won’t find many pace bowlers with those numbers, in any country, in any era, still waiting for their moment. But then, you won’t find many cricketers like Michael Neser...

He doesn’t need speed. He has got something better: perseverance. And finally, the opportunity.

[Jacob Procter @JacobProcter4]

@LongridgeCC

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

What a picture.
I love Test cricket. ❤️

[Jacob Procter @JacobProcter4]

@H_Harrison18 You can’t blame Nico today pal

[Jacob Procter @JacobProcter4]

@LDPlatt94 Stop fuckin tweeting about Lowe nobody cares

[Rory McIlroy @McIlroyRory]

Dreams do come true.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

He tortured us..
He tortured himself…
But in the end, after one of the greatest rollercoaster rides in sporting history, ⁦@McIlroyRory⁩ put his Major demons behind him to become Masters champion, and look what it means to him. What a story. Congrats Rory! 👏👏

[Jacob Procter @JacobProcter4]

All Rory aren’t we?!?

[Jacob Procter @JacobProcter4]

@Fraiser2001 @racingblogger @AlexDuckworth2 You’ve already bought your ticket pal

[Wealth @wealth_united_]

Like this tweet if you will miss Scott Mctominay 😭♥️

[Tom Garratt @Tgarratt10]

Both of Southgate’s subs won us the game btw. When will he get credit? Or is it luck again? We’re winning it. BACK THEM 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[george @StokeyyG2]

Gary Neville’s reaction 😂😂😂😂

[🐐 @Mcnutter96]

Judeeeeeee. We live in a weird world where half of the base would’ve been buzzing if we had gone out tonight to say they were right about Southgate. Onto the Swiss 🚂 🚂 🚂.

[Jacob Procter @JacobProcter4]

@H_Harrison18 @henrywinter Chill out pal

[Jacob Procter @JacobProcter4]

@H_Harrison18 @DFrankcom @InsiderEdgeBets No. You know the international game better than me

[Jacob Procter @JacobProcter4]

@racingblogger Relax bloggsy lad. Trainer said they will come on for the run