Dickie Bird on Covid, the Queen, Margaret Thatcher… and hating hawkeye!

It is starting to spit in Barnsley and, just like in days of old, Dickie Bird is nervously looking up at the sky. ‘No, I wouldn’t take you off for this — play on,’ smiles the legendary umpire, who jokes he no longer has his light meter to consult. Dickie, it transpires, has called it … Read more